From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58213 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: authinfo encryption through netrc.el works now Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:07:49 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <4nwu0u8zht.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4noem1tmmp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nk6wlzbc2.fsf@koz.bwh.harvard.edu> <4n4qnl8mnw.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4noelsxi20.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nacxaaloy.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <4nllgtck5a.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nu0vg17t3.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091815704 32139 80.91.224.253 (6 Aug 2004 18:08:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:08:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6754@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Aug 06 20:08:17 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bt98a-0007ig-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:08:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Bt98N-000405-00; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:08:03 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Bt98J-000400-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:07:59 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Bt98J-0004eL-Kv for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:07:59 -0500 Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [217.13.230.178]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803733A003E for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:07:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se [217.215.27.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Debian-5) with ESMTP id i76I7qm0006887 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 20:07:53 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Hashcash: 0:040806:ding@gnus.org:7a92b2f7104dc5f1 In-Reply-To: <4nu0vg17t3.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "6 Aug 2004 13:43:20 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.74, clamav-milter version 0.74a on yxa-iv X-Virus-Status: Clean Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58213 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58213 "Ted Zlatanov" writes: > On 5 Aug 2004, tzz@lifelogs.com wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004, jas@extundo.com wrote: > >>> If the password is cached directly, and if the user type the wrong >>> password, that logic wouldn't work, and it would infloop steps 1, 2, >>> and 3. > > We're decoding a file, not connecting to the server - this is a lower > level of interaction. I now remove failed *encryption* passwords, but > I can't (and shouldn't) care what happens with the contents of the > files once they are decoded. So, I think, the right things will > happen now. Yup. Handling bad passwords read from .authinfo should be taken care of by the code using the password.