From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58210 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ted Zlatanov" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: authinfo/netrc file encryption status -- GnuPG Date: 6 Aug 2004 13:31:29 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <4ny8ks18cu.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <4nwu0u8zht.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4noem1tmmp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nk6wlzbc2.fsf@koz.bwh.harvard.edu> <4n4qnl8mnw.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4noelsxi20.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091814858 29987 80.91.224.253 (6 Aug 2004 17:54:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 17:54:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6751@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Aug 06 19:54:07 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bt8ut-0006O0-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 19:54:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Bt8td-0003ie-00; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 12:52:49 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Bt8tW-0003iY-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 12:52:42 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Bt8tU-0004RZ-Ur for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 12:52:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.bwh.harvard.edu (sysblade0.bwh.harvard.edu [134.174.9.44]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558C93A003E for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:52:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 19491 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2004 17:44:47 -0000 Envelope-Sender: tzz@lifelogs.com Envelope-Recipients: ding@gnus.org, Original-Received: from asimov.bwh.harvard.edu (HELO asimov) ([134.174.9.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.bwh.harvard.edu (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Aug 2004 17:44:46 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: "Ding Mailing List" Original-To: "Ding Mailing List" X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" In-Reply-To: (Steven E. Harris's message of "Wed, 04 Aug 2004 15:55:34 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58210 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58210 On Wed, 04 Aug 2004, seh@panix.com wrote: > Summarizing: With no passwords in a non-encrypted .authinfo file, I > type a password for each server each time I start Gnus, and I usually > don't have to repeat that password until I exit and restart Gnus. With > passwords in an encrypted .authinfo file, I have to type the > decryption password every gnus-encrypt-password-cache-expiry period. > > Is that the expected behavior? Yes, every time you run netrc-parse implicitly (by opening a nnimap or nntp connection) you will need to give a password. Gnus caches the passwords in other ways, e.g. imap.el will save the variable imap-password. But if you use netrc.el, you don't use that caching right now. If you ask and someone wants to do it, fine, but I think it's easier to just set a longer expiration time on your passwords. Ted