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ReplyToThis could offer more secure advice #1843
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Since this is interactive, this looks like the easiest alternative: https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#-u
I don't quite understand... Do you mean to replace
--user <email>:<password>with--user <email>?Yup, exactly. That way curl can read the password from stdin (or the tty, or however it does it).
@dseomn I hope to merge gitgitgadget/gitgitgadget.github.io#21 soon, after that I'd like to invite you to contribute the change via a PR (I do like a development process that uses modern tools such as PRs...)
Sure, I just subscribed to that so I'll know when it's merged, but feel free to ping me if I forget. (I did look for an edit button on the wiki before filing this bug.)
Reacted by Johannes SchindelinI did look for an edit button on the wiki before filing this bug.
Yeah, that's my fault. I just got too tired with the spam fighting in Git for Windows' wiki and simply locked down GitGitGadget's wiki.
- added a commit that references this issue
on Mar 6, 2025
https://github.com/gitgitgadget/gitgitgadget/wiki/ReplyToThis has a command that puts a password in the command line:
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/passing-passwords.html has a decent overview of the security issues with that.
Since this is interactive, this looks like the easiest alternative: https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#-u