On 4/7/2011 14:47, Faisal Memon wrote: > Hi, > > When you use git from cygwin to clone a repo which requires a password, your > password when typed comes out as plain text, instead of being taken from your > terminal silently (without echo). The clone thus fails. > The same local machine, but using linux command line shows the same repo > working; it queries for password against the terminal session properly.
<snip> > I am using git in cygwin version 1.7.4. Cygwin is kicked off from the PuTTY > program version 20101029 > The same machine is running linux (via Virtual Box virtualisation), git > version > 1.7.1 > > I've seen this problem reported elsewhere (stackoverflow) but no solution. > > Any ideas what do to? Instead of using PuTTY to run Cygwin, try using mintty instead. It is available as a Cygwin package and is originally based on some fork of PuTTY if I recall correctly. Using a standard Windows cmd terminal will also work. I believe the problem is that Cygwin programs, such as git, expect to have a terminal when they prompt for passwords like that. Cygwin programs don't understand PuTTY as a terminal though. They probably see it as a plain pipe, so they won't try to treat it like a terminal and will thus be unable to capture passwords like this. You can see similar problems for native Windows programs that try to take input in a similar manner when running in a terminal such as mintty. Again, they see the terminal as a simple pipe, so it's impossible to do any of the terminal magic necessary to capture the password silently. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
