From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: auth-source (.authinfo.gpg) stopped working?
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:18:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vd2f2w2f.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84ipyjkcch.fsf@davestoy.home>
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:45:50 -0500 david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) wrote:
DG> I updated this morning after staying on a version from much earlier in the month as I've been trying to debug an issue with my exchange server.
DG> Normally on running gnus, I am prompted for the passphrase for
DG> .authinfo.gpg. Assuming I don't mistype, the file is opened (by
DG> virtue of epg) and parsed and I am not prompted for any further login
DG> information.
DG> That didn't work after updating this morning. Instead I was prompted
DG> for login information even after successfully opening .authinfo.gpg.
DG> I seem to recall some discussion about the line format in there so I
DG> figured I'd go through the prompts and let it write whatever it wanted
DG> back into the file. Well nothing new got written but my connections
DG> to the servers failed. Today was surprisingly busy (had to meet a
DG> deadline before the holiday) so I reverted to my previous
DG> installation. I plan to take up debugging it next week, but if anyone
DG> has any idea what to look for I would greatly appreciate any pointers.
DG> In case it matters (as I fear it might) I am running on XEmacs 21.4.22.
Open the .gpg file directly in Emacs. Does that work? If yes, we'll
look for a problem in auth-source.el. If not, the problem is in EPA or
in the GPG setup. The sequence you're describing (nothing works, you're
prompted to save login info) suggests the latter.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-27 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-24 4:45 Dave Goldberg
2010-12-27 13:18 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-12-27 15:48 ` Dave Goldberg
2010-12-28 14:48 ` Dave Goldberg
2011-01-02 5:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-03 13:35 ` Dave Goldberg
2011-01-03 14:02 ` Dave Goldberg
2011-01-03 23:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-04 1:24 ` Dave Goldberg
2011-01-04 1:36 ` Daiki Ueno
2011-01-05 2:51 ` Daiki Ueno
2011-01-05 14:08 ` Dave Goldberg
2011-01-05 14:14 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2011-01-05 18:43 ` Daiki Ueno
2011-01-06 13:12 ` Dave Goldberg
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