Re: Password protection

[Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net>]

On 29 Sep 2010, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> I find it sort of puzzling that we have to jump through all these hoops
>> to get at credentials.  I mean, Firefox users don't have to set up a gpg
>> agent or type their passwords a gazillion times, so why should users?
>
> I just shove mine into ~/.netrc, set appropriate permissions, and let the
> whole thing be.  I did my risk assessment, encrypted my entire disk, and was
> satisfied that by the time someone could steal my password through there the
> could equally steal it behind the back of any encryption.

With the kind help of Daiku, who talked me through this, I just managed
to fix the 'having a .authinfo.gpg and getting asked six times for the
password' issue here. At gnus start-up, I'm now asked just one time:

The trick is doing this

gpg --symmetric .authinfo