From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77171 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: should auth-source cache false results? Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:33:31 -0800 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: <87wrkr40bo.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87ipwiyifb.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ei763hi3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87mxlugu71.fsf@gnus.org> <87pqqjyen6.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298450118 8806 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2011 08:35:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:35:18 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25504@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Feb 23 09:35:14 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PsABl-0002Eb-Im for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:35:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PsABj-0000sM-24; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:35:11 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PsABh-0000s2-GF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:35:09 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PsABd-0002CT-EI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:35:09 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PsABc-0002GS-N7 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:35:04 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PsABc-0002Bp-HV for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:35:04 +0100 Original-Received: from baybryj.net ([198.144.208.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:35:04 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by baybryj.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:35:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: baybryj.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:G5rAfnzOlyDL1I3ixLdwe/9qenM= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77171 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > In practice this is, I think, a bad idea (I tried it out). If the user > adds entries externally, he will be mystified and won't necessarily know > about auth-source-forget*. So instead I cache all netrc searches now. If the .authinfo file changes, then auth-source should forget those entries automatically, shouldn't it? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen