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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Severe limitations in auth-source-macos-keychain-search
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:57:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twm1pv0d.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADdV=MtDq0asg8DJUYtOgLTipN5j3pg5oWC=Q04AcNebE-9NLg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 09:36:56 +0100 Nikolai Weibull <now@disu.se> wrote: 

NW> Is anyone actually using auth-source-macos-keychain-search (with Gnus)?

Not with Gnus.

NW> If so, how do you get it to work?  As far as I can tell, this function
NW> doesn’t take into account that spec may contain keys that are lists,
NW> for example, host and port.

NW> Furthermore, in auth-source-macos-keychain-search-items, if called for
NW> macos-keychain-generic, should probably validate that -c and -r only
NW> receive four-letter values, as that’s what security(1) requires them
NW> to be.

Can you either try to write a patch against auth-source.el, or explain
in more detail how it should operate?

I have access to a Mac OS X machine, but I don't know enough about the
keychain to understand exactly what needs to be done.

Thanks
Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-25 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-08  8:36 Nikolai Weibull
2016-01-25 14:57 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2016-01-25 16:17 ` Jeff Bellegarde
2016-02-06  6:00   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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