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

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

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.

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

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

Ted