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Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net> writes:

>> Gnus should create and store such a "password" automatically and put
>> it in your ~/.emacs, doesn't it?
>
> Okay, it did.  But it's in (custom-set-variables ...) -- the question
> is whether Gnus is allowed to touch this form.  I vote to write the
> password to say ~/.gnus-canlock-password and read it from there.

Gnus uses `customize-save-variable'.  The problem with
~/.gnus-canlock-password is that we'll have yet another ~/.newsrc.eld
file that we must document and be backwards compatible with.  IMHO it
seems better to use an API for handling that, and all the boring stuff
can be hidden inside custom, and documented in one place.  Maybe it is
a good idea to hear what the Emacs gurus feel.

> I'm I allowed to change it to something I'm able to remember like
> "emacs"? ;)

Yup.  Since no servers use it yet, it doesn't even have to be secret
just as long as you remember it.