Re: [Gnu-arch-users] proposal : ~/.authinfo

[Jason McCarty]

Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I  didn't find any  other way  to specify  a password  for an  HTTP or
> webdav archive than giving the password in clear in the URL like
> 
> http://user:address@hidden/
> 
> I don't  like this  very much,  because then, it  is displayed  on the
> screen when one use a command like "tla archives". 
> 
> So, I would like to implement a ~/.authinfo mechanism. 

I'd like it better if 'tla archives' just replaced the password with
'*password*' for example. The passwords would still be embedded in the
URLs in ~/.arch-params/=locations/. You might also want to implement a
--password option to {make,register}-archive, which would read the
password from stdin without echoing, so it doesn't show up on the
command line either.

-- 
Jason McCarty <address@hidden>