Re: Bug: auth-sources not set before retrieving authinfo

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:13:30 -0400 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote: 

TZ> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:26:06 +0800 XeCycle <XeCycle@Gmail.com> wrote: 
X> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
X> [...]

>>> You can also structure `auth-sources' so a specific host is found in
>>> ~/.authinfo but all others come from ~/.authinfo.gpg.
>>> 
>>> First in the list, put the ~/.authinfo entry, and add an extra parameter
>>> "host: regex" with `M-x customize-variable'.  The equivalent Lisp:
>>> 
>>> #+begin_src lisp
>>> (setq auth-sources '((:source "~/.authinfo" :host "yourhost" :port t)
>>> (:source "~/.authinfo.gpg" :host t :port t)))
>>> 
>>> #+end_src
>>> 
>>> Let me know if it works OK for you or not.

X> Sadly it doesn't.  It seems to try all sources.

X> I've set it to this:
X> (setq auth-sources '((:source "/dev/null" :host "localhost")
X> (:source "~/.authinfo.gpg" :host t)))

X> It still asks me for that.

TZ> It will search `auth-sources' until it finds a match; the second entry
TZ> has :host t so it's considered in the search.  We don't have the ability
TZ> to say "don't search for host X" yet.  So you'll have to make a file
TZ> with an entry for localhost and put it first in auth-sources.

TZ> I think this is a pretty unusual case and I hope you agree.  If not I
TZ> can look into supporting it better.

I haven't heard of anyone else needing this, but wanted to check again 6
months later and ask if I should implement it more natively.  Any interest?

Thanks
Ted