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From: "Paul Eggleton" <paul.eggleton@linux.microsoft.com>
To: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] bitbake-user-manual: document no support for using passwords in git URLs
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 19:00:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e18c6851ed98b4cac6b0eda0636a2e6eae88eb09.1618364983.git.paul.eggleton@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1618364983.git.paul.eggleton@linux.microsoft.com>

From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com>

This is based on the comment added in revision
aded964eed4ce5a725ed1ab477efabc86b1aa481.

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com>
---
 doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst
index e9a5f33..bd6cc0e 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst
@@ -441,6 +441,15 @@ Here are some example URLs: ::
    SRC_URI = "git://git.oe.handhelds.org/git/vip.git;tag=version-1"
    SRC_URI = "git://git.oe.handhelds.org/git/vip.git;protocol=http"
 
+.. note::
+
+   Specifying passwords directly in ``git://`` urls is not supported.
+   There are several reasons: ``SRC_URI`` is often written out to logs and
+   other places, and that could easily leak passwords; it is also all too
+   easy to share metadata without removing passwords. SSH keys, ``~/.netrc``
+   and ``~/.ssh/config`` files can be used as alternatives.
+
+
 .. _gitsm-fetcher:
 
 Git Submodule Fetcher (``gitsm://``)
-- 
1.8.3.1


  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-14  2:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-14  2:00 [PATCH 0/2] Doc tweaks for 1.50 Paul Eggleton
2021-04-14  2:00 ` Paul Eggleton [this message]
2021-04-14  2:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] bitbake-user-manual: add REQUIRED_VERSION and adjust PREFERRED_VERSION entry Paul Eggleton
2021-04-15 14:36 ` [bitbake-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Doc tweaks for 1.50 Michael Opdenacker

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