fre 17 jan. 2025 kl. 01:49 skrev Ryan Carsten Schmidt < subversion-2...@ryandesign.com>:
> On Jan 16, 2025, at 17:09, Bo Berglund wrote: > > > > It should return the request for password into the channel that issued > the > > command rather than firing up a completely unrelated comm channel. (of > course) > > > > If you get a landline phone call you do not reply in a cellphone, right? > > I understand the end user perspective of what you're saying. I am asking > how on a technical level you suggest subversion would accomplish that. > There are different password managers on each os and as far as I know > subversion is merely asking the password manager to supply the password. If > the password manager already has a suitable password saved, it returns that > immediately. What method the password manager uses to request a password > from the user when one is not already saved is up to the password manager, > not subversion. I agree with Bo here although I don’t understand enough about recent Linux-on-the-desktop development. A long time ago, setting DISPLAY was the way to declare where you wanted to your GUI to appear. When SSH-ing into a box you wasn’t able to set DISPLAY to the X server of that computer. It was either empty or you could forward it back to your local computer. When running X directly on the console, DISPLAY was obviously pointing at localhost. There are no guarantees that the same uses logged in on the local console as the one running the ssh session. But we are running very much off-topic here. From a Subversion perspective we are just asking the password manager to get the password and then it is out of our hands. Cheers Daniel
