ClientApi::GetPassword()

Get password setting.

Virtual?	No
Class	ClientApi
Arguments	None
Returns	const StrPtr &	a reference to the password

Notes

See GetClient() for more about the StrPtr return value.

This method returns the password currently set on the client, which might or might not be the one set on the server for this user. The command "p4 passwd" sets P4PASSWD on the client machine to an MD5 hash of the actual password, in which case GetPassword() returns this MD5 hash rather than the plaintext version.

However, if the user sets P4PASSWD directly with the plaintext version, GetPassword() returns that plaintext version. In both instances, the result is the same as that displayed by "p4 set" or an equivalent command that displays the value of the P4PASSWD environment variable.

SetPassword() overrides the P4PASSWD value, and subsequent GetPassword() calls return the new value set by SetPassword() rather than the one in the environment.

Example

The following example demonstrates the usage of GetPassword().

ClientApi client;

printf( "Your password is %s\n", client.GetPassword().Text() );

The following session illustrates the effect of password settings on GetPassword():

> p4 set P4PASSWD=p455w04d
> a.out
Your password is p455w04d

> p4 passwd
Enter new password:
Re-enter new password:
Password updated.

> a.out
Your password is 6F577E10961C8F7B519501097131787C