From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86326 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: auth-source backend stuff Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:43:15 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87lh9on2lo.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87d1v9kye0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <8737w0psm7.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8737w0atwb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448293499 28784 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2015 15:44:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:44:59 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34558@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Nov 23 16:44:43 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a0tII-0004yf-6f for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:44:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1a0tHK-0001I6-9r; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:43:42 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1a0tHH-0001HZ-N5 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:43:39 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1a0tHG-0006cb-Bo for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:43:39 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a0tHE-0001oW-C0 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:43:36 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a0tH8-00031W-ST for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:43:31 +0100 Original-Received: from 98.229.60.157 ([98.229.60.157]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:43:30 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 98.229.60.157 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:43:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 98.229.60.157 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" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UtFWIBGwv7D7/+BtbWm8amOjlEM= X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86326 Archived-At: On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 11:55:16 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: EA> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:06:47 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> EA> I see that auth-source.el is written to provide backend subclassing, but EA> I've found the system as a whole a bit confusing to grasp. I've got a EA> couple of questions I'm hoping someone can provide pointers for. >> >> I wrote docs for it here: >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/143198/focus=144282 but the >> demand hasn't been high for custom backends. >> >> I think the :create stuff is what confuses people the most. EA> Thanks for this! It was also enough to clue me in to the fact that EA> auth-source has its own info manual, which I hadn't realized. Between EA> the various explanations I ought to be able to make this work. I would really appreciate it if you added your experience to the developer section of the auth-source manual, and especially let me know if you think the code needs changing. As far as I know Daiki Ueno is the only one to have added a backend, so with you we'd have enough experience to improve the code and simplify or expand it as needed. Ted