[Koha-devel] git-bz: avoid storing unencrypted passwords in gitconfig

[Liz Rea]

Deep approval, nice!

Liz


On 17/01/18 23:14, Julian Maurice wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently shared an LXD container containing my Koha dev environment,
> and of course I forgot to remove my Bugzilla credentials from the git
> config...
> I immediately changed it, but for that not to happen again I searched
> for a way to not have to store unencrypted passwords for git-bz.
>
> The result is here https://github.com/jajm/git-bz/tree/git-credential
>
> It uses git-credential, so you can theoretically use any password
> manager you want, as long as you can write a git-credential helper for
> it (I use the builtin 'cache' helper, which stores passwords in memory)
>
> I thought it might interest some people here.
>
> For more information, see the commit message at
> https://github.com/jajm/git-bz/commit/efb06d8fe3033a83772d0294ab5f67c7f51eaf57
>

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