Saved authinfo not used with Gmail

Saved authinfo not used with Gmail

[Scott Jaderholm]

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Hi,

I'm having trouble with Gnus and authinfo with Gmail/IMAP. When I start
Gnus it asks for a password for jaderholm@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com. I type
in my password and it asks to save it in ~/.authinfo. Gnus logs in fine.
Next time I start Gnus though it asks for the password again and then
writes another identical line to ~/.authinfo. I can't figure out why it
doesn't use the line/password that's there that it wrote.

Ma Gnus v0.4
GNU Emacs 24.0.93.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of
2012-03-16 on haz
-rw------- 1 scott scott 210 2012-03-19 23:41 .authinfo
machine imap.gmail.com login jaderholm@gmail.com password secret

(setq gnus-select-method
      '(nnimap "gmail"
              (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
              (nnimap-user "jaderholm@gmail.com")
              (nnimap-server-port 993)
              (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")
              (nnimap-stream ssl)
              (nnir-search-engine imap)))

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Scott

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Re: Saved authinfo not used with Gmail

[황병희]

Scott Jaderholm <jaderholm@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble with Gnus and authinfo with Gmail/IMAP. When I
> start Gnus it asks for a password for
> jaderholm@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com. I type in my password and it asks
> to save it in ~/.authinfo. Gnus logs in fine. Next time I start Gnus
> though it asks for the password again and then writes another
> identical line to ~/.authinfo. I can't figure out why it doesn't use
> the line/password that's there that it wrote.
>
> Ma Gnus v0.4
> GNU Emacs 24.0.93.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of
> 2012-03-16 on haz
> -rw------- 1 scott scott 210 2012-03-19 23:41 .authinfo
> machine imap.gmail.com login jaderholm@gmail.com password secret
                                                            ^^^^^^
Well if i correct my memory, you would be remove the above line "secret".

> (setq gnus-select-method
>       '(nnimap "gmail"
>               (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
>               (nnimap-user "jaderholm@gmail.com")
>               (nnimap-server-port 993)
>               (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")
>               (nnimap-stream ssl)
>               (nnir-search-engine imap)))
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
>

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Re: Saved authinfo not used with Gmail

[Scott Jaderholm]

2012/3/20 황병희 <soyeomul@kr.gnus.pro>
>
> > Ma Gnus v0.4
> > GNU Emacs 24.0.93.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of
> > 2012-03-16 on haz
> > -rw------- 1 scott scott 210 2012-03-19 23:41 .authinfo
> > machine imap.gmail.com login jaderholm@gmail.com password secret
>                                                            ^^^^^^
> Well if i correct my memory, you would be remove the above line "secret".

Thanks for responding, but I don't follow. Maybe you can explain a
little more what you're thinking. Are you saying remove my password
(secret here), that doesn't seem likely to make Gnus stop prompting
for it every time. The line above that is not in the file. Removing
the username like the arrows are pointing at doesn't seem to make
sense.

Scott

Re: Saved authinfo not used with Gmail

[Michael Heerdegen]

Scott Jaderholm <jaderholm@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm having trouble with Gnus and authinfo with Gmail/IMAP. When I
> start Gnus it asks for a password for
> jaderholm@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com. I type in my password and it asks
> to save it in ~/.authinfo. Gnus logs in fine. Next time I start Gnus
> though it asks for the password again and then writes another
> identical line to ~/.authinfo. I can't figure out why it doesn't use
> the line/password that's there that it wrote.
>
> Ma Gnus v0.4
> GNU Emacs 24.0.93.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2012-03-16 on haz
> -rw------- 1 scott scott 210 2012-03-19 23:41 .authinfo
> machine imap.gmail.com login jaderholm@gmail.com password secret
>
> (setq gnus-select-method
>       '(nnimap "gmail"
>               (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
>               (nnimap-user "jaderholm@gmail.com")
>               (nnimap-server-port 993)
>               (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")
>               (nnimap-stream ssl)
>               (nnir-search-engine imap)))

Just a guess: can you try replacing

   (nnimap-user "jaderholm@gmail.com")

with

   (nnimap-user "jaderholm")

in your select method?


Michael

Re: Saved authinfo not used with Gmail

[Scott Jaderholm]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Michael Heerdegen
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
> Scott Jaderholm <jaderholm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm having trouble with Gnus and authinfo with Gmail/IMAP. When I
>> start Gnus it asks for a password for
>> jaderholm@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com. I type in my password and it asks
>> to save it in ~/.authinfo. Gnus logs in fine. Next time I start Gnus
>> though it asks for the password again and then writes another
>> identical line to ~/.authinfo. I can't figure out why it doesn't use
>> the line/password that's there that it wrote.
>>
>> Ma Gnus v0.4
>> GNU Emacs 24.0.93.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2012-03-16 on haz
>> -rw------- 1 scott scott 210 2012-03-19 23:41 .authinfo
>> machine imap.gmail.com login jaderholm@gmail.com password secret
>>
>> (setq gnus-select-method
>>       '(nnimap "gmail"
>>               (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
>>               (nnimap-user "jaderholm@gmail.com")
>>               (nnimap-server-port 993)
>>               (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")
>>               (nnimap-stream ssl)
>>               (nnir-search-engine imap)))
>
> Just a guess: can you try replacing
>
>   (nnimap-user "jaderholm@gmail.com")
>
> with
>
>   (nnimap-user "jaderholm")
>
> in your select method?

Doesn't help. I figured out the problem though. Whatever's reading
.authinfo (auth-source.el?) does not support reading a password that
starts with #. I had to include the password in quotes in .authinfo.

Scott

Re: Saved authinfo not used with Gmail

[Michael Heerdegen]

Scott Jaderholm <jaderholm@gmail.com> writes:

> >> I'm having trouble with Gnus and authinfo with Gmail/IMAP. When I
> >> start Gnus it asks for a password for
> >> jaderholm@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com. I type in my password and it asks
> >> to save it in ~/.authinfo. Gnus logs in fine. Next time I start Gnus
> >> though it asks for the password again and then writes another
> >> identical line to ~/.authinfo. I can't figure out why it doesn't use
> >> the line/password that's there that it wrote.

> I figured out the problem though. Whatever's reading .authinfo
> (auth-source.el?) does not support reading a password that starts with
> #. I had to include the password in quotes in .authinfo.

Then it's IMHO a bug.  If you can reproduce this problem with an
up-to-date Gnus in emacs -Q, then I suggest M-x report-gnus-bug.


Michael.

Re: Saved authinfo not used with Gmail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Scott Jaderholm <jaderholm@gmail.com> writes:

> Whatever's reading .authinfo (auth-source.el?) does not support
> reading a password that starts with #. I had to include the password
> in quotes in .authinfo.

Hm.  The "#" character is the comment character for the .netrc syntax
(which .authinfo uses, too).  So I think that's correct behaviour.

What's not correct is that auth-source wrote the token unquoted to the
file in the first place.  I'll fix that.

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