Does not store repository credentials

• I am on the latest Poetry version.

• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.

• If an exception occurs when executing a command, I executed it again in debug mode (-vvv option).

• OS version and name: macOS Big Sur 11.6

• Poetry version: 1.1.11

Issue

Poetry does not store the password for my private repo when using the config command as outlined in the documentation.

poetry config http-basic.gitlab username password

This, to no surprise, leads to an authentication error when trying to install a package from that private repo.

I found out that no password is stored by directly checking the configuration in ~/Library/Application Support/pypoetry/auth.toml, reading simply:

[http-basic]
[http-basic.gitlab]
username = "username"

By adding the following line, I was able to patch the issue:

password = "password"

However, the password disappears every time I run the config command again:

poetry config http-basic.gitlab username password

Relevant section of my pyproject.toml:

[[tool.poetry.source]]
name = "gitlab"
url = "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/groups/1123.../-/packages/pypi/simple"

[build-system]
requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]
build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"

Start with the config command's handling of repository credentials and inspect the generated auth.toml file described in the report. Reproduce poetry config http-basic.gitlab username password, then verify that the password persists and private-package installation authenticates successfully.