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

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Matthieu Moy <address@hidden>

    > Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

    > > and then you can register an archive with something like:

    > >     tla register-archive $ARCHIVENAME http://%s:address@hidden/$PATH

    > Hmm,  actually, this  is not  a really  good idea  : Passwords  on the
    > command line should really be avoided as much as possible :

I think there's a miscommunication here.   This is a mechanism that
would involve _avoiding_ passwords on the command line.

    > A better option would be to  offer the user to keep his password after
    > entering it with getpass().

That's kind of a separate thing.   Yes, might not be a bad idea.  That
can be handled by providing patches to the transport layer
("pfs-*.[ch]").


-t