RE: [Monotone-devel] passphrase option

[Nathaniel Smith]

>===== Original Message From Carlos Hespanhol <address@hidden> =====
>regarding writing passwords in files I agree with Richard, but my original
>idea was the user type the password in a dialog(GUI) and then I would call
>monotone using this password, it wouldnt be writen to a file, and like Jon
>said it could be hidden by monotone.
>The way I'm using now it's writen in the rc file but an option would be to
>call a program that opens a dialog asking for the password and returns it in
>a file that is erased by get_passphrase as soon as it gets it.

Lua hooks can call arbitrary code; instead of all these shenanigans involving 
writing the password to permanent storage in cleartext, why not just write a 
hook that pops up that dialog box, and never writes the result to disk at all?

-- Nathaniel