From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72150 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gijs Hillenius Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Password protection Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:54:45 +0200 Organization: Using Emacs' Org Mode Message-ID: <87k4m5kjze.fsf@hillenius.net> References: <87mxr1nv0d.fsf@rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285750563 25656 80.91.229.12 (29 Sep 2010 08:56:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:56:03 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20523@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 29 10:56:02 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 1P0sSC-0006P0-HJ for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:55:56 +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 1P0sRQ-0008Mn-S2; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:55:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P0sRO-0008Ma-Is for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:55:06 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P0sRJ-000416-Vt for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:55:06 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P0sRJ-0005UC-00 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:55:01 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0sRD-0005mP-Cj for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:54:55 +0200 Original-Received: from 109.128.123.246 ([109.128.123.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:54:55 +0200 Original-Received: from gijs by 109.128.123.246 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:54:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 109.128.123.246 X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux Sid X-Homepage: http://www.hillenius.net/ X-GPGP-Fingerprint: 0D0B 9C67 0520 3B27 A91C 369B 7154 1B0A 04CF 3929 X-Now-Playing: Eliza Gilkyson - Is It Like Today User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z3PPyFaJ17UkmXfrSA7CHLpe6GU= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72150 Archived-At: On 29 Sep 2010, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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