[Openembedded-architecture] Interactive password prompts and the git fetcher

[Koen Kooi]

> Op 4 sep. 2018, om 06:18 heeft Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> In the layer index / RRS code I have found that if it tries to use bitbake's 
> git fetcher to access a git repository on github that has been renamed or gone 
> private via http/https, I get prompted for a password interactively, 
> presumably on the assumption that maybe if I authenticate I might be able to 
> see the repo. Here's an example git command that will trigger it (trimmed from 
> the actual command issued by the fetcher):
> 
>  git ls-remote http://github.com/symless/synergy.git
> 
> This can be disabled by setting the environment variables GIT_ASKPASS to an 
> empty string and GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT to 0, which allows the fetch command to 
> fail immediately. I could conceivably do this in the layer index / RRS 
> scripts, but it occurred to me that perhaps this should be disabled in 
> bitbake's git fetcher itself. We need to decide whether or not interactive 
> password prompts should be allowed during a fetch operation (I'm guessing not, 
> although I have a feeling this might be a "spacebar heating" situation for 
> some).
> 
> Thoughts? In particular, does anyone object to disabling such interactive 
> prompts during fetching?

Having run into similar issues a few times: let’s disable interactive prompts during fetching.

regards,

Koen