Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:43:07PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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Note that http://user:pass@server/path/ /should/ work (but that would 
need validation), though not a good idea on command line.

Well, now that the programs using URLs are all builtins, we can actually 
do something about it.  We can edit out the "user[:pass]@" part out of 
argv, which usually means that "ps" will not see it anymore.

Wouldn't there still be a race condition for publicly broadcasting your
password via ps?

In addition, I think on some Unices overwriting argv[0] does not have the
effect Dscho is aiming for.

I thought we do discourage [:pass] part in our documentation.