Re: auth-sources: 8 password prompts for accessing one single imap server

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

Hi Ted,

> TH> It is, #7130.  And we've already figured out how to reproduce the
> TH> bug.  The target of the symlink has to be version controlled.  In
> TH> that case, emacs will query the user if she wants to follow a
> TH> symlink to a version controlled file, and after saying yes, she
> TH> has to provide the password a second time.
>
> Ohhh, that's why I couldn't trigger it.  I actually used to have that
> setup a while ago but now point directly to the VC-controlled file :)

Well, it turned out, that wasn't the real issue.  The real problem was
that I use GnuPG2, and with that, there's no way to cache passwords on
the lisp level.  But when you set up the gpg-agent properly (exactly as
the docs state), then that will do the caching so that you are only
asked once per file (in a certain time frame).

Now, Gnus still accesses my ~/.authinfo.gpg a few dozen times when
starting up, but I have to provide the password only once.

Bye,
Tassilo