Allow fully qualified paths in credentials store
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- Go
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Description
Description
This would allow users to use a helper that does not live in path. The underlying credentials helper library uses os/exec exec.Command so this should be safe to do.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the Docker CLI credentials store and its use of the credentials helper library, then inspect how os/exec.Command handles helper names. Confirm the expected behavior for fully qualified helper paths and add or update tests so that this path form is accepted without breaking existing helpers.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- authentication, cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100