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gut stores personal access tokens in clear text #174

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snomos opened this issue Mar 30, 2022 · 3 comments
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gut stores personal access tokens in clear text #174

snomos opened this issue Mar 30, 2022 · 3 comments
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snomos commented Mar 30, 2022

Anyone having access to the computer can take over the GitHub account.

Fix: store in keychain, access through system calls.

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bbqsrc commented Jun 20, 2022

There is no cross-platform way to do this. This is also the industry standard approach, even github's gh tool does this.

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snomos commented Jun 20, 2022

How can it be industry standard to store what amounts to a password in clear text on a local machine?? Unbelievable. Physical access is not necessary to get to the token, just whatever access one can establish. This looks like a nightmare in the making...

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bbqsrc commented Jun 20, 2022

Welcome to 2022, where plaintext tokens are still the norm lol.

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