From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: auth-source for new users
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:45:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d39iwm8c.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjie4q12.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:11:21 -0500")
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> We're discussing this in an emacs bug thread. I'm not sure what's the
> right solution here. There's valid scenarios for:
>
> 1) keeping the username+password in memory only (easy to implement!)
>
> 2) saving them to a keychain immediately
>
> 3) saving them to a netrc/authinfo file immediately
>
> 4) saving all credentials to a netrc/authinfo file later, keeping them
> in memory now
Well, the user if prompted. I think it might be reasonable to just add
another letter at the prompt that is "don't save, but remember for this
session only". Sorta 1).
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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-13 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-09 22:47 Gnus startup problems? Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-09 23:07 ` Antoine Levitt
2012-02-10 3:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-10 8:18 ` Antoine Levitt
2012-02-10 15:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-13 17:11 ` auth-source for new users (was: Gnus startup problems?) Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-13 18:39 ` auth-source for new users Michael Albinus
2012-02-13 19:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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