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Allow fully qualified paths in credentials store

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go

Research direction

Start by locating the Docker CLI credentials store and its use of the credentials helper library, then inspect how os/exec.Command handles helper names. Confirm the expected behavior for fully qualified helper paths and add or update tests so that this path form is accepted without breaking existing helpers.

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Description

This would allow users to use a helper that does not live in path. The underlying credentials helper library uses os/exec exec.Command so this should be safe to do.

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