> On Mar 10, 2015, at 6:29 PM, brian m. carlson <sand...@crustytoothpaste.net> > wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 06:05:46PM +0000, Dan Langille (dalangil) wrote: >>> We have made progress I think. >>> >>> With stock git: >>> >>> tl;dr: 1 - with a ticket, you get prompted, but hitting ENTER succeeds. >>> 2 - without a ticket, nothing works >>> >>> >>> With patched git: >>> >>> tl;dr: 1 - with a ticket, entering credentials, SUCCEEDS; just hit >>> enter, failure >> >> If I have a valid ticket, why am I being prompted for credentials? > > libcurl won't even attempt authentication if you don't have a username > specified. I know that the web server should be able to figure it out > from your credentials, so it shouldn't matter what username you provide. > This is an unfortuate quirk of lib curl.
I understand. > Also, are you using 2.3.0, or one of the earlier patched versions? That > might affect how it works. I am using git-2.3.0 >> It appears patched git always wants credentials entered and ignores the >> valid ticket. > > So what I think is happening is that you didn't specify a username, but > git got a 401, so it prompted. Now it actually attempts to use the > password you provided, whereas before it did not. > > Does it work with a ticket if you specify a username, as in the > following URL? > https://b...@git.crustytoothpaste.net/git/bmc/homedir.git Yes, that does work. Our project is 98% of the way there now. I looked at both libcurl and git environment variables to see if there was a way to specify the user without putting it in the URL. I didn’t see one. My next step is the git configuration, either server or client. Do you know if I should stop looking now because it’s not there? Thank you for your help in getting us this far. This helps us tremendously. — Dan Langille Infrastructure & Operations Talos Group Sourcefire, Inc.
