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On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Per Abrahamsen wrote:

> Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:
>
> >    (setq canlock-password "hemmeligt")
>
> We would either need to generate the password automatically (and in a
> not too easily predictable way), or alternatively prompt the user for
> a password first time he post.  And if we prompt, we need a really
> good formulation.

Customize auto-save it, initialized to something random [1]? But the user
should then be informed about keeping .emacs read-protected in multi-user
environments. Which is a can of worms that shouldn't be opened.  Sigh.

[1] There isn't a good PRNG available in elisp... Hm.  Maybe a random
number library would be nice.