From: Drew Hess <drew.hess@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: auth-sources: 8 password prompts for accessing one single imap server
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:59:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik3zWY9ifhgQTxknMzxfsV3AY0vGCcGpCBx9MM7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1sd3rzk7xy.fsf@voll.uninett.no>
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Vegard Vesterheim
<vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:09:24 +0200 Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ted,
>>
>> I've just made my system a bit more secure by eventually encryting my
>> .authinfo file. But now I have to enter my passwort for that file *8*
>> times per imap account!
>
> I'm seeing similar behaviour, I have to enter my password 4
> times. I have my credentials in .authinfo.gpg (no symlink)
>
> Upon starting emacs (emacs23 -f gnus-no-server), I get 2 prompts for
> password. I assume that is because I have different 2 IMAP accounts.
>
> I have open IMAP connections at this stage, but if I now type '3 g' to
> get email at level 3, I have to enter my password 2 times again. This
> does not happen if I type '1 g' or '2 g'. Go figure.
>
> I run gpg-agent, and I also have set
> epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption.
Lars, I just confirmed that this is the same problem that I reported
earlier with .authinfo.gpg, only in my case I have to type my GPG
passphrase 10 times before I'm able to authenticate. I just didn't
have the patience that Tassilo did to keep trying, so I thought it
wasn't working at all.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-27 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-27 0:09 Tassilo Horn
2010-09-27 6:38 ` Vegard Vesterheim
2010-09-27 7:59 ` Drew Hess [this message]
2011-02-25 22:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-27 16:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-27 17:13 ` Vegard Vesterheim
2010-09-27 17:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-27 20:50 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-09-27 20:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 6:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-09-30 15:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-05 7:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-10-06 7:20 ` "epa (Caching Passphrases)" Daiki Ueno
2010-10-06 12:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-06 12:38 ` Daiki Ueno
2010-10-06 12:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-06 13:25 ` Daiki Ueno
2010-10-07 19:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-08 15:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-27 21:01 ` auth-sources: 8 password prompts for accessing one single imap server Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-27 21:42 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-09-28 7:25 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-28 10:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 10:32 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-28 12:04 ` Dave Goldberg
2010-09-28 13:10 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-28 13:42 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-27 16:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-27 18:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-27 18:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-27 18:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
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