Thrown exception reveals passwords
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                 Key: VFS-169
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-169
             Project: Commons VFS
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 1.0
            Reporter: Joerg Schaible


If an exception occurs accessing a FileObject on a FileSystem that is addressed 
with an URL containing user and password the thrown exception contains the 
password as part of the error message:

org.apache.commons.vfs.FileSystemException: Could not connect to SFTP server at 
"sftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/".

In such a case the URL should be printed as "sftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/". 
Same applied to log messages - at least for INFO and higher.

This is a security risk, since in big companies exceptions and logs are 
normally collected and archived in monitoring systems and may reveal the 
password to persons that have normally no authorization to the target system.


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