Not storing passwords in cleartext

[Matthieu Moy]

Alexey Shamrin <shamrin at gmail.com> writes:

> Just in case you haven't noticed... sftp transport supports
> sftp://user@host.com and will prompt the password using getpass python
> module.

Nice (and it seems to use my ssh-agent too). BTW, it prompts my
password 3 times for one push.

But interactive prompt is not 100% satisfactory : some people don't
want to type their password each time they access a remote location
(need for an agent), and some people may want to put this kind of
command in a cron job (need for a possible way to store the password
in cleartext).

Since ssh already has all this, bzr can and should rely on it to
manage passwords, I'm very happy that it does. I'm more worried about
ftp and webdav actually.

-- 
Matthieu