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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> Regarding caching, I think the cache key will be a serialized version of
> SPEC that expires when the file is modified or after a minute.  I really
> don't like caching this information, though; I'd rather force the client
> to cache those results if it makes sense.  So I may be annoying and
> remove `auth-source-do-cache' and all the related code altogether.

What about using password-cache? If a user does not like password
caching (for security reasons, or so), she could set password-cache to nil.

There is no need for an additional auth-source-do-cache then.

> Thanks
> Ted

Best regards, Michael.