P4PASSWD
Description
Supplies the current Perforce user’s password for any Perforce command.
Usage Notes
Used by Client? | Used by Server? | Command-Line Alternative | Can be set in P4CONFIG file? |
---|---|---|---|
Yes |
No |
p4 -P |
Yes |
Value if not Explicitly Set
Operating System | Value |
---|---|
All |
None |
Notes
Perforce passwords are set via p4 passwd
, or in the
form invoked by p4 user
. The setting of
P4PASSWD
is used to verify the user’s identity. If a
password has not been set, the value P4PASSWD
is not
used, even if set.
While it is possible to manually set the P4PASSWD
environment variable to your plaintext password, the more secure way is
to use the p4 passwd
command. On UNIX, this will
invoke a challenge/response mechanism which securely verifies your
password. On Windows, this sets P4PASSWD
to the encrypted
MD5 hash of your password.
On Windows platforms, if you set a password in P4V, the value of the
registry variable P4PASSWD
is set for you. Setting the
password in P4V is like using p4 passwd
(or
p4 set
P4PASSWD
) from the MS-DOS command
line, setting the registry variable to the encrypted MD5 hash of the
password. The unencrypted password itself is never stored in the
registry.
If you are using ticket-based authentication, but have a script that
relies on a P4PASSWD
setting, use p4
login
-p to display the value of a ticket that can be passed to
Perforce commands as though it were a password (that is, either from the
command line, or by setting P4PASSWD
to the value of the
valid ticket).