[MERGE] Make authentication.conf accepts new password encodings and a netrc plugin
Ian Clatworthy
ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net
Thu Jan 8 07:06:25 GMT 2009
Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
> This patch makes authentication.conf accepts a new encoding: 'netrc'.
>
> This password encoding is implemented via a plugin that can be
> used as an example to implement other credential stores.
Sweet!
bb:tweak
> + * ``$HOME/.netrc`` file is now recognize as a read-only credential store
> + if configured in ``authentication.conf`` with 'password_encoding=netrc'
> + if the appropriate sections.
> + (Vincent Ladeuil, #103029)
s/recognize/recognized/
s/if the/in the/
> +Plugins can provide additional password encodings, the provided
> +``netrc_credential_store`` plugin can be used as an example implementation.
s/, the/. The/
> - described here. An encoding named ``netrc`` for example will provide
> - passwords by retrieving them in the ``.netrc`` file.
> + described here. The ``netrc`` encoding for example provide passwords by
> + retrieving them in the ``.netrc`` file.
s/provide/provides/
s/retrieving them in/retrieving them from/
> + output some traces in the ``.bzr.log`` file metionning the sections
> + used. This allows the user to validate his definitions.
s/mentionning/mentioning/
And some other drive-by tweaks to authentication-ring.txt ...
> ``HTTP proxy`` can be handled as ``HTTP`` (or ``HTTPS``) by explicitely
> specifying the appropriate port.
s/explicitely/explicitly/
> This specification intend to ease the authentication providing, not to secure
s/intend/intends/
> ``~/.bazaar/authentication.conf`` will use the same file format than
> ``~/.bazaar/bazaar.conf``.
s/than/as/
Ian C.
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