From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71946 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: auth-sources: 8 password prompts for accessing one single imap server Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:09:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87ocbkujwr.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285546279 32029 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2010 00:11:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:11:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20319@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 27 02:11:18 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 1P01JM-0000Rp-NK for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:11:17 +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 1P01Iv-0004gl-05; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:10:49 -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 1P01Is-0004gU-OB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:10:46 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P01Iq-0008Jr-MS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:10:46 -0500 Original-Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P01Ip-0007xE-00 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:10:44 +0200 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F7175EE; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:10:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:10:43 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=TL+FkJIMtRW0XhIDlAQjF9Nz6fE=; b=YgzwjX8stwe1F32zcqe40t9WEC1USYGTWcH0OsvkbAvee75sZH6vdQdSYsPEeR4jk3m0HzopcKWDucgUDrurEdpducusQxI/y49UNCMJ4bfqoM4f412kF1hn1etArret09zGSoYGmF/QPR7VkM/EjHpRWm7tJmf0/sg/DEtHppQ= X-Sasl-enc: Bwxp3KHw5jW3FrV5T25tA+k+A/FyERsvNsBeD1MO1HQ7 1285546242 Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (p54AF0DEF.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.175.13.239]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id EC48F404393; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:10:41 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71946 Archived-At: Hi Ted, I've just made my system a bit more secure by eventually encryting my .authinfo file. But now I have to enter my passwort for that file *8* times per imap account! Here's a typical "conversation": --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Opening TLS connection to `mail.uni-koblenz.de'... Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli -p imaps mail.uni-koblenz.de'...done Opening TLS connection to `mail.uni-koblenz.de'...done auth-source-user-or-password: get (login password) for Uni (143) + user=nil /home/horn/.authinfo: 0% (0/248) /home/horn/.authinfo: 100% (248/248) /home/horn/.authinfo: 0% (0/248) /home/horn/.authinfo: 100% (248/248) auth-source-user-or-password: get (login password) for Uni (993) + user=nil /home/horn/.authinfo: 0% (0/248) /home/horn/.authinfo: 100% (248/248) /home/horn/.authinfo: 0% (0/248) /home/horn/.authinfo: 100% (248/248) auth-source-user-or-password: get (login password) for Uni (imap) + user=nil /home/horn/.authinfo: 0% (0/248) /home/horn/.authinfo: 100% (248/248) /home/horn/.authinfo: 0% (0/248) /home/horn/.authinfo: 100% (248/248) auth-source-user-or-password: get (login password) for Uni (imaps) + user=nil /home/horn/.authinfo: 0% (0/248) /home/horn/.authinfo: 100% (248/248) /home/horn/.authinfo: 0% (0/248) /home/horn/.authinfo: 100% (248/248) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- As you can see, 1) it queries for a password for each possible imap port or port name. And 2), for each of those, I have to type my password 2 times. I think 1) is clearly a bug, but it makes Gnus pretty unusable for me. I have 4 accounts that need passwords! 2) might be caused by the fact that my ~/.authinfo.gpg is only a symlink to another file. Bye, Tassilo