From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72118 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Password protection Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:50:15 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87ocbh3ot4.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285685437 20713 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2010 14:50:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:50:37 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20491@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Sep 28 16:50:37 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 1P0bVs-00063W-Mn for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:50:37 +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 1P0bVn-0003RN-Cb; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:50:31 -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 1P0bVl-0003RA-RH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:50:29 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P0bVl-0003dA-4z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:50:29 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P0bVi-00080E-00 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:50:26 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0bVh-00061W-Rk for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:50:25 +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 ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:50:25 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:50:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 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:zQnbWGdxYvGwC7zGLL9/d/J/jSM= X-Spam-Score: 0.8 (/) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin (3.3.1 2010-03-16) analysis follows Bayesian score: 0.0000 Ham tokens: 0.000-849--1570h-0s--0d--H*M:fsf, 0.000-744--1375h-0s--0d--H*u:Emacs, 0.000-732--1354h-0s--0d--H*u:Gnus, 0.000-708--1309h-0s--0d--H*u:linux, 0.000-708--1309h-0s--0d--H*UA:linux Spam tokens: 0.987-1--0h-1s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:sk:1P0bVi-, 0.987-1--0h-1s--0d--H*RU:sk:1P0bVi-, 0.862-166--1187h-22052s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:quimby.gnus.org, 0.862-166--1187h-22052s--0d--H*RU:quimby.gnus.org, 0.851-47--1253h-21187s--0d--HTo:D*gnus.org Autolearn status: no 1.5 URIBL_RHS_DOB Contains an URI of a new domain (Day Old Bread) [URIs: danjou.info] 1.2 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO Received: contains an IP address used for HELO -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72118 Archived-At: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:46:32 +0200 Julien Danjou wrote: JD> On Tue, Sep 28 2010, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: >> Am I missing something obvious here? JD> If the process run by the Lisp code is `cat > file', Lisp code reading JD> file will get the password, won't it? Going in the direction of signing packages is an interesting way to solve this. ELPA-style repos could deliver packages signed with the author's key and you, the user, would authorize that key. Emacs would, of course, come authorized for its own internal packages. But this is really a can of worms better spilled in emacs-devel IMO. Ted