On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 9:18 PM Paul Eggleton
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> In the layer index / RRS code I have found that if it tries to use bitbake's
> git fetcher to access a git repository on github that has been renamed or gone
> private via http/https, I get prompted for a password interactively,
> presumably on the assumption that maybe if I authenticate I might be able to
> see the repo. Here's an example git command that will trigger it (trimmed from
> the actual command issued by the fetcher):
>
>   git ls-remote http://github.com/symless/synergy.git
>
> This can be disabled by setting the environment variables GIT_ASKPASS to an
> empty string and GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT to 0, which allows the fetch command to
> fail immediately. I could conceivably do this in the layer index / RRS
> scripts, but it occurred to me that perhaps this should be disabled in
> bitbake's git fetcher itself. We need to decide whether or not interactive
> password prompts should be allowed during a fetch operation (I'm guessing not,
> although I have a feeling this might be a "spacebar heating" situation for
> some).
>
> Thoughts? In particular, does anyone object to disabling such interactive
> prompts during fetching?
>

+1
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