Re: Password protection

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:

> On 29 Sep 2010, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>
>>> I find it sort of puzzling that we have to jump through all these hoops
>>> to get at credentials.  I mean, Firefox users don't have to set up a gpg
>>> agent or type their passwords a gazillion times, so why should users?
>>
>> I just shove mine into ~/.netrc, set appropriate permissions, and let the
>> whole thing be.  I did my risk assessment, encrypted my entire disk, and was
>> satisfied that by the time someone could steal my password through there the
>> could equally steal it behind the back of any encryption.
>
> With the kind help of Daiku, who talked me through this, I just managed
> to fix the 'having a .authinfo.gpg and getting asked six times for the
> password' issue here. At gnus start-up, I'm now asked just one time:
>
> The trick is doing this
>
> gpg --symmetric .authinfo
>

Emacs and EPA should do that for you when you first save the gpg
file. It should prompt you for which key to use or you can select
symmetric if I remember rightly.

My authinfo.gpg is signed with a key and I am only prompted once. The
only thing I did with the command line was to create the initial key.

regards

r.


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