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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: global authinfo mechanism in Emacs, Gnus, Tramp
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:03:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ablluffr.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hcftm563.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:12:04 -0700 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote: 

>>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

Ted> entry:
Ted> protocol-or-purpose: ['pop, 'imap, 'imaps, 'ssh, t]
Ted> hardcoded: (:user "me" :password 'ask :cache 60)
Ted> file: (:name "/a/b/c" :epg-parameters () :other-parameters ())
Ted> command: (:program "/bin/true" :parameters ())

Tom> Gnome's keyring manager uses (more or less) an application-specified
Tom> alist and returns the best match.  That way different users of the
Tom> keyring can store the information they need there.

Can Emacs ask the Gnome keyring manager over some protocol for a user's
authentication alist?  That would be great for those who use Gnome.
Sorry, I'm not one of them so I don't know the protocols and data
formats available.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-28 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-05 20:37 mail-source.el patch to use netrc-parse Ted Zlatanov
2008-02-16 22:21 ` Reiner Steib
2008-02-28 15:38   ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-04-25 18:52     ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-02-28 15:38   ` global authinfo mechanism in Emacs, Gnus, Tramp (was: mail-source.el patch to use netrc-parse) Ted Zlatanov
2008-02-28 16:12     ` global authinfo mechanism in Emacs, Gnus, Tramp Tom Tromey
2008-02-28 18:03       ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2008-02-28 17:48         ` Tom Tromey
2008-03-06 22:36     ` Ted Zlatanov

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