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Re: Feature request - option to save username and password for proxy in setup.exe
- From: Siddhant Saraf <siddhantsaraf at gmail dot com>
- To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 23:15:42 +0530
- Subject: Re: Feature request - option to save username and password for proxy in setup.exe
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> Siddhant Saraf writes:
>> If the proxy requires authentication, it prompts for username and
>> pasword. Can it include an option to save the username and password
>> too ?
>
> The username is unlikely to be a problem, but storing the password would
> be a no-no. Since it is very likely that the authenticating proxy is
> actually asking for NTLM authentication, you'd be better off using cntlm
> (and use the NTLMv2 method with an NTLM hash).
Fwiw, my proxy uses OpenLDAP authentication.
Is storing password that difficult or is it due to security concerns ? hmm..
Siddhant
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