On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 08:12:16PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > Ah, I forgot to update the docs again :x > > My main concern with .netrc was actually inadvertantly sending > FTP auth info to an IMAP server just because they share the same > host.
No big deal -- folks can always just use the "store" credential helper to pretty much the same effect. > Not sure if plaintext is a real problem on encrypted block > devices/filesystems. Ordinary users can't mlock(2) to prevent > in-memory passwords from hitting swap (thus I always use > encrypted swap). Right, plus most of them probably have their .gitconfig with sendemail.smtppass configured anyway. :) -K
