How to hide user name and password in pip.log?

Question

I'm using pip to install Python libraries on VMs that are accessible to several users. Some of the libraries are stored on a private artifactory. To make pip able to access this private artifactory, I give appropriate username and password.

If there is an error while trying to access the artifactory, a file pip.log is automatically created. The following line is part of it:

Cannot fetch index base URL https://user:password!@artifactory.../

How could I prevent pip from writing user id and password in this log file?

Answer 1

I can't find documentation for it, but pip supports .netrc files in ~ and .:

machine artifactory.hostname
login username
password password

These credentials should not show up in logs.