From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Cache passwords
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:52:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluad5mbd6g.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vfoa5she.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> (Kai Grossjohann's message of "Sun, 21 Dec 2003 11:18:37 +0000")
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Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:
> I'm thinking about augmenting Tramp with a multi-connection mode.
> What does this have to do with Gnus, you ask? Well, opening a
> connection to a remote host often means that the user has to enter a
> password (or five). I would like to make it convenient for the user
> to open more connections, so I'd like to cache the password that the
> user typed.
>
> Is there something in Gnus or PGG or mailcrypt that could help me with
> this? I guess I need some key (a string I guess) to store each
> password under. And I need a way of retrieving the password later.
There is code in pgg.el for this, but perhaps depending on it in tramp
isn't the best idea. It could be separated. How about a password.el?
> And some security of one kind of another would be nice, too.
Left as an exercise to the reader.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-21 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-21 11:18 Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-21 11:52 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2003-12-30 21:42 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-31 1:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-12-30 21:55 ` Jesper Harder
2003-12-30 22:26 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-30 23:59 ` Jesper Harder
2003-12-31 0:14 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-31 0:37 ` Jesper Harder
2003-12-31 1:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-12-31 1:03 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2003-12-31 1:12 ` Jesper Harder
2003-12-31 1:52 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2003-12-31 2:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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