Thanks, Marius.  How can I "use SSL certificates for authenticating
towards the proxy"?  I have no idea...

I think gitorious should prompt the user for login/password instead of
throwing an exception when stumbling upon a proxy requiring
authentication.  For instance, most subversion clients do that.  That
is a more acceptable behavior.

thanks,

Paulo

On 29 maio, 05:02, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28. mai. 2009, at 18.04, Paulo Carvalho wrote:
>
> >  Thanks very much for the concern, but I fear having my username and
> > password in clear text recorded in user histories, server logs, etc.
> > is out of the question.  Here in my environment, the login/password
> > pair is global, thus, someone reading such records can log in as me,
> > read my mail, make requests or even access critical data.
> >   Is there some other [secure] way?  If not I'll try to arrange an
> > open proxy, but I think gitorious could be evolved to support
> > authenticated proxies without too much exposure.
>
> Paulo,
> What we're talking about is the authentication between you and your  
> proxy server, this has absolutely nothing to do with Gitorious.  
> Actually, it has very little to do with Git, as Git uses curl for its  
> http connections.
>
> As with most other things, Git has plenty of ways to allow you to do  
> this:
> - through an environment variable
> - through a per-repository git config setting
> - through your global git config settings
>
> For authenticated communication with Gitorious, the options are:
> - Git over SSH. This uses your public/private SSH key pair, which can  
> be used either with a passphrase or not, the choice is yours
> - By using the web interface. Using the web interface, you're  
> authenticated using a username/password combination. This information  
> is submitted over an SSL connection, which should be very secure
>
> If you're concerned with the security involved in your proxy  
> authentication, you should probably look into the proxy software. An  
> option might be to use SSL certificates for authenticating towards the  
> proxy server?
>
> Regards,
> - Marius
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