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  • Would there be a way to add it to the keyring? Commented Mar 19, 2018 at 21:46
  • @Mashimom Yes, Gilles's answer suggests this approach. Commented Sep 24, 2019 at 19:26
  • This is a partial solution, no? In the end, your environment will still contain your username and password as plain text, so simply issuing env would expose them. Commented Jul 8, 2022 at 7:56
  • @TonvandenHeuvel No, using this your environment will have an encrypted version of your username and password. Why do you think it will be unencrypted? If the wording is unclear I can try to improve the answer. (But I suggest you don't use this approach since it's still pretty insecure.) Commented Jul 13, 2022 at 19:44
  • Ah yes, I missed the base64 encoding...indeed, still pretty insecure. In the end I went with wrapper scripts around processes that require proxy authentication. It still allows inspection of the proxy password by checking the environment of running processes through /proc, but it is the best I could come up with. Commented Jul 14, 2022 at 9:37