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DEPRECATED: This repository is now frozen - please see individual lesson repositories.
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Add note about SSH_ASKPASS #656

Closed rgaiacs closed 9 years ago

rgaiacs commented 9 years ago

Some operational systems has a default program to manage passwords. For this cases, at the Git lesson when try

$ git push origin master

the password manager will be call. Maybe add

$ unset SSH_ASKPASS

at Git configuration section or an box note.

wking commented 9 years ago

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 09:36:22AM -0700, r-gaia-cs wrote:

Some operational systems has a default program to manage passwords.

If the user likes using that password manager, do we really want to disable it here?

rgaiacs commented 9 years ago

If the user likes using that password manager, do we really want to disable it here?

Of course not. From my personal experience, sometimes the user discovery it at our workshop. I believe that avoiding it at our workshop can save some students from troubles but I can be convinced of the contrary by many arguments (e.g. most of your students use Windows and unset SSH_ASKPASS is executed by default).