Re: non-interactive user authentication

On Saturday, October 5, 2002, at 11:05 PM, Branko Èibej wrote:

> Please don't ... aargh, you already have. I think this was a bad move.
> It's better to fix the code than to add yet another option: If you
> already passed a --username and --password, or if your url is
> http://user:pass@foo/..., then why on earth would you have to pass
> --non-interactive to suppress the password dialogue, too? That just
> doesn't make sense -- we're beginning to accumulate one-shot options
> at an alarming rate. And not writing tests for them, may I add.

FWIW, I agree. This option doesn't make much sense to me...

-garrett

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