Re: auth-sources: 8 password prompts for accessing one single imap server

[Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net>]

On 27 Sep 2010, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:50:57 +0200 Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
>
> TH> I use an emacs 24 bzr build from yesterday.  When I find ~/.authinfo.gpg
> TH> which is a symlink for ~/repos/configs/dot-authinfo.gpg, I have to enter
> TH> the passphrase twice.  When I kill the buffer and find ~/.authinfo.gpg
> TH> again, I still have to enter it twice again.
>
> TH> When I find the real file (not the symlink) directly, I have to give my
> TH> password only once to open that file.  But after killing the buffer and
> TH> finding the file again, I'm again queried...
>
> I looked and couldn't find the problem; epa-file.el says:
>
> 	(setq file (file-truename file))
>
> before checking or caching the passphrase so it should Just Work.  Check
> what `file-truename' says for your link but either way that seems like
> an EPA bug.  Also look at the contents of `epa-file-passphrase-alist'
> before and after the first failed passphrase entry, and after the second
> successful one.

Here, on Debian Testing/Unstable using emacs-snapshot, I don't have /
see / can't find nor get a buffer called / "epa-file-passphrase-alist".

That would explain the repeated asking for a password, would it not?

Library is file /usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/epa-file.elc