From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: auth-sources: 8 password prompts for accessing one single imap server
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:19:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjvb69kt.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik3zWY9ifhgQTxknMzxfsV3AY0vGCcGpCBx9MM7@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:59:28 -0700 Drew Hess <drew.hess@gmail.com> wrote:
DH> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Vegard Vesterheim
DH> <vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no> wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:09:24 +0200 Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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!
>>
>> I'm seeing similar behaviour, I have to enter my password 4
>> times. I have my credentials in .authinfo.gpg (no symlink)
>>
>> Upon starting emacs (emacs23 -f gnus-no-server), I get 2 prompts for
>> password. I assume that is because I have different 2 IMAP accounts.
>>
>> I have open IMAP connections at this stage, but if I now type '3 g' to
>> get email at level 3, I have to enter my password 2 times again. This
>> does not happen if I type '1 g' or '2 g'. Go figure.
>>
>> I run gpg-agent, and I also have set
>> epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption.
DH> Lars, I just confirmed that this is the same problem that I reported
DH> earlier with .authinfo.gpg, only in my case I have to type my GPG
DH> passphrase 10 times before I'm able to authenticate. I just didn't
DH> have the patience that Tassilo did to keep trying, so I thought it
DH> wasn't working at all.
This should be fixed now. Thanks for your patience.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-25 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-27 0:09 Tassilo Horn
2010-09-27 6:38 ` Vegard Vesterheim
2010-09-27 7:59 ` Drew Hess
2011-02-25 22:19 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-09-27 16:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-27 17:13 ` Vegard Vesterheim
2010-09-27 17:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-27 20:50 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-09-27 20:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 6:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-09-30 15:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-05 7:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-10-06 7:20 ` "epa (Caching Passphrases)" Daiki Ueno
2010-10-06 12:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-06 12:38 ` Daiki Ueno
2010-10-06 12:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-06 13:25 ` Daiki Ueno
2010-10-07 19:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-08 15:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-27 21:01 ` auth-sources: 8 password prompts for accessing one single imap server Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-27 21:42 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-09-28 7:25 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-28 10:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 10:32 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-28 12:04 ` Dave Goldberg
2010-09-28 13:10 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-28 13:42 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-27 16:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-27 18:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-27 18:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-27 18:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
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