From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 03/13] introduce credentials API
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:48:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111210194801.GA17999@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r50chcvm.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 03:43:01AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > There are a few places in git that need to get a username
> > and password credential from the user; the most notable one
> > is HTTP authentication for smart-http pushing.
>
> A question: does it work also for access via SSH, either without
> public key set up (i.e. 'keyboard-interactive'), or with encrypted
> private key without ssh-agent set up?
No. ssh handles its own password querying, and contacts the user
directly via the terminal. And there's not much point in using a
password helper with ssh; if you don't want to type your password, set
up a key and use ssh-agent.
> It would probably require URL i.e. ssh://git.example.com/srv/scm/repo.git
> or git+ssh://git.example.com/srv/scm/repo.git and not scp-like
> address i.e. user@git.example.com:/srv/scm/repo.git, isn't it?
It's not a matter of recognizing the URL; it's that we hand off the
authentication problem to ssh, which takes care of it entirely itself.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-10 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-10 10:28 [PATCHv3 0/13] credential helpers Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:30 ` [PATCHv3 01/13] test-lib: add test_config_global variant Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:30 ` [PATCHv3 02/13] t5550: fix typo Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:31 ` [PATCHv3 03/13] introduce credentials API Jeff King
2011-12-10 11:43 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-12-10 19:48 ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-12-10 10:31 ` [PATCHv3 04/13] credential: add function for parsing url components Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:31 ` [PATCHv3 05/13] http: use credential API to get passwords Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:31 ` [PATCHv3 06/13] credential: apply helper config Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:31 ` [PATCHv3 07/13] credential: add credential.*.username Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:31 ` [PATCHv3 08/13] credential: make relevance of http path configurable Jeff King
2011-12-10 11:50 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-12-10 19:50 ` Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:31 ` [PATCHv3 09/13] docs: end-user documentation for the credential subsystem Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:34 ` [PATCHv3 10/13] credentials: add "cache" helper Jeff King
2012-01-10 1:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-10 4:44 ` Jeff King
2012-01-10 4:57 ` Jeff King
2012-01-10 16:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-17 6:02 ` Jeff King
2012-01-17 6:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-10 17:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-10 17:53 ` Jeff King
2012-01-11 23:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-12 3:07 ` Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:34 ` [PATCHv3 11/13] strbuf: add strbuf_add*_urlencode Jeff King
2011-12-10 11:57 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-12-10 20:09 ` Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:34 ` [PATCHv3 12/13] credentials: add "store" helper Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:35 ` [PATCHv3 13/13] t: add test harness for external credential helpers Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:39 ` [PATCHv2 0/9] echo characters in username prompt Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:40 ` [PATCHv2 1/9] imap-send: avoid buffer overflow Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:40 ` [PATCHv2 2/9] imap-send: don't check return value of git_getpass Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:40 ` [PATCHv2 3/9] move git_getpass to its own source file Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:40 ` [PATCHv2 4/9] refactor git_getpass into generic prompt function Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:41 ` [PATCHv2 5/9] add generic terminal " Jeff King
2011-12-15 12:48 ` Pete Wyckoff
2011-12-15 13:39 ` Jeff King
2011-12-15 21:59 ` Pete Wyckoff
2011-12-10 10:41 ` [PATCHv2 6/9] prompt: use git_terminal_prompt Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:41 ` [PATCHv2 7/9] credential: use git_prompt instead of git_getpass Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:41 ` [PATCHv2 8/9] Makefile: linux has /dev/tty Jeff King
2011-12-10 10:41 ` [PATCHv2 9/9] Makefile: OS X " Jeff King
2011-12-12 21:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: Windows lacks /dev/tty Johannes Sixt
2011-12-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: optionally exclude code that needs Unix sockets Johannes Sixt
2011-12-12 21:39 ` Jeff King
2011-12-12 23:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-13 0:58 ` Jeff King
2011-12-13 0:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-13 20:00 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-12-14 0:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-12 21:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: Windows lacks /dev/tty Jeff King
2011-12-12 21:52 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-12-10 10:53 ` [PATCH 1/1] contrib: add credential helper for OS X Keychain Jeff King
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