Flux CLI support for parameters from env vars (at least sensitive ones such as password)

[canidam]

Discussed in #2557

^{Originally posted by canidam March 21, 2022}
Bootstrapping flux with git subcommand using credentials requires the user to provide password over CLI.

  # Run bootstrap for a Git repository and authenticate using a password
  flux bootstrap git --url=https://example.com/repository.git --password=<password>

This is a bad pattern. I find it weird flux doesn't support provide credentials over environment variables or from a file.

Couple of problems with such pattern:

1. Password is kept in history by default (unless user remembers to start with the command with a space)
2. Other users on the machine can read the password in clear-text with ps -aux

Why does the flux CLI doesn't support variables from the environment? Is that something worth opening a PR for?

[canidam]

I use the git provider for bitbucket server, that's why I need it. I'll open PR to align this with the other providers