how to set-up HTTPS authentication with client certificate and passwords

[Martin Geisler]

"Paul van der Linden" <paul at soulbase.nl> writes:

Hi Paul

I'm CC'ing our HTTPS expert, perhaps he can help.

> It looks like the security support in mercurial is not very complete.
> The gui client for windows (tortoisehg) and the eclipse client both
> just hangs when a PEM certificate with passphrase is used.
> And the same problem with repeatedly inputting passwords within one
> command happens when using http authentication. I think Mercurial
> needs some improvement there.

Have you seen the [auth] section in the hgrc man page:

  http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html#auth

That will allow you to specify username and password for HTTP.

It also says something about PEM encoded certificates, but I don't
anything about those.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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