From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72151 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Password protection Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:07:01 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87mxr1nv0d.fsf@rimspace.net> <87k4m5kjze.fsf@hillenius.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285751289 29293 80.91.229.12 (29 Sep 2010 09:08:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:08:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Gijs Hillenius Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20524@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 29 11:08:07 2010 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 1P0sdz-0003JN-Bi for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:08:07 +0200 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 1P0sdh-0008Re-Lv; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:07:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P0sdf-0008RQ-CN for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:07:47 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P0sdb-00083b-72 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:07:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f44.google.com ([209.85.161.44]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P0sda-0005dl-00 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:07:42 +0200 Original-Received: by fxm6 with SMTP id 6so475272fxm.17 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:07:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject :organization:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=EPRrKMtcLbRQvzFU+WEvGzPjSiUSNUG2FlE9Rc0ddCs=; b=CuxZNuOvTHWih6COZ1LdXKfvvHkbMxBQ/0Q5guIJB+dwB/OjUgPCumFadN0TopAXFf Uxel+I+J1jwwx2W8oNKE7Nvfk1Qxohg371QzszALXZuwfFUy6FVho8mb/kQ/ZO48G4sX KXKKbSy98TP+BbwRKIVYM7rebgju1mUwlaqeE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:organization:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=BSbMifo3pHdm0eVqc5/sQ6OZoXdUrWSSkOqn1z1kDC1Z0gLYFJa5nXjbTqhGvV83l3 IJVK6WppjidqZG0y0Lt3K/O2+LbvNdlOgkBolEkMftvpCxgClE7CrRQ1urKtPRGNydq5 zMHptmULyhG0UIfB5kGH+yiS0Yop1YfDVrW7w= Original-Received: by 10.223.113.71 with SMTP id z7mr1361380fap.3.1285751232007; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:07:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([85.183.18.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k15sm3644825fai.40.2010.09.29.02.07.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:07:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87k4m5kjze.fsf@hillenius.net> (Gijs Hillenius's message of "Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:54:45 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72151 Archived-At: Gijs Hillenius writes: > On 29 Sep 2010, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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. --=20 =E2=98=98 http://www.shamrockirishbar.com, http://splash-of-open-sauce.blog= spot.com/ http://www.richardriley.net