From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71213 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [gnus git] Add ~/.authinfo to the default, since that's probably most useful for users. Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:03:58 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87fwx4h2xt.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87iq238tgr.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwx56tau.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284995118 29989 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2010 15:05:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:05:18 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M19586@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 20 17:05:17 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxhvf-0007Jz-3Q for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:05:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OxhvZ-0001iM-Hv; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:05:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OxhvY-0001i6-2a for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:05:08 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OxhvU-000441-3Z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:05:07 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OxhvT-0004LR-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxhvT-0007Ex-C4 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:05:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:f6ZWmma5NvoiGdZVFhc5kl41CMw= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71213 Archived-At: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:14:22 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Ted Zlatanov writes: LMI> And if there was a nice, painless road towards storing the passwords in LMI> ~/.authinfo.gpg, that would be nice. That is, if the user is queried LMI> for user name/password, then auth-source.el should store it encrypted, LMI> and not in the plain ~/.authinfo file. >> >> auth-source.el has nothing to do with it. All the work is done by >> EPA/EPG and I'm intentionally keeping auth-source.el agnostic of >> encryption issues beyond mentioning the .gpg extension. LMI> I don't know what EPA/EPG is. It's a transparent encryption/decryption layer at the file handler level that comes with Emacs and gets triggered by the .gpg extension. See (info "(epa) Top") for more. I put some info in the auth-source.el manual as well, see (info "(auth) Help for users") LMI> Will auth-source.el store the passwords that are queried anywhere? LMI> Like in the ~/.authinfo.gpg file? It caches them but doesn't save them. Ted