working with launchpad behind an authenticating proxy

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 4/11/2012 10:33 AM, Denys Duchier wrote:
> Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> writes:
> 
>> On 11 April 2012 06:01, Denys Duchier
>> <denys.duchier at univ-orleans.fr> wrote:
>>> thank you!  I shall try tomorrow; but, let's be honest, that's
>>> just a sucky solution (if it works at all) ;-)  it exposes to
>>> all processes information that should preferably remain
>>> private.
>> 
>> You should be able to put this into $http_proxy and then it will
>> be private.
> 
> a variable in the environment is precisely NOT private (all
> processes can look at their environment).  a password in a file is
> not much more private, but at least it is tucked away.
> 
> I guess I'll redefine bzr to first source a private file with their
> own settings for http_proxy.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --Denys

Anything that isn't having a user type the password at the time they
connect is not particularly private....

John
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