From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: auth-source for new users
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:39:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k43q1sss.fsf@gmx.de> (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:
> (to anyone interested, we're talking about new users with no auth-source
> setup, not those who have already set up an authinfo file as suggested
> by the auth-source docs)
>
> 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
>
> I favor (4) but Stefan Monnier likes (2) and keychains in general, and
> there seems to be no consensus on what's best. So any opinions are
> welcome.
I'm in favour of (1) for *new* users. (2) is also OK, if there is a keychain.
(3) and (4) would be surprising to new users.
> Ted
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-13 18:39 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 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2012-02-13 19:45 ` auth-source for new users Lars Ingebrigtsen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87k43q1sss.fsf@gmx.de \
--to=michael.albinus@gmx.de \
--cc=ding@gnus.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).