From: "Steven E. Harris" <seh@panix.com>
Subject: Re: authinfo encryption through netrc.el works now
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 15:59:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jk4u0vhur6v.fsf@W003275.na.alarismed.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4npt65ckbe.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "5 Aug 2004 18:05:25 -0400")
"Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> If we store the password cache in a persistent file, that file can
> be read.
I didn't mean to store the password in a persistent file. I just meant
to keep in around in memory between Gnus sessions, so long as the
password expiry timeout hasn't been reached.
When I said that I exit Gnus, I didn't mean that I exit XEmacs. I just
exit Gnus every so often (for a variety of reasons) but leave XEmacs
running. Sometimes I connect to one IMAP server, check my mail, then
exit again, and then immediately realize that I forgot to look at a
different message. So start up Gnus again -- and have to type my
password again.
> There are ways around this but no easy ones (you can do things like
> use ssh-agent or hardware encryption).
Yes, I use ssh-agent and keychain for my ssh keys. That's more the
behavior I was expecting out of the password cache.
--
Steven E. Harris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-05 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-21 18:25 authinfo/netrc file encryption status -- GnuPG Steven E.Harris
2004-07-23 16:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-07-23 17:16 ` Steven E. Harris
2004-07-23 17:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-07-23 21:39 ` Steven E. Harris
2004-07-27 16:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-07-27 18:12 ` Steven E. Harris
2004-07-30 16:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-02 23:06 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2004-08-03 17:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
[not found] ` <jk465858idw.fsf@W003275.na.alarismed.com>
[not found] ` <4n4qnl8mnw.fsf@lifelogs.com>
[not found] ` <jk4ekmp1iym.fsf@W003275.na.alarismed.com>
2004-08-03 17:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-03 21:47 ` Steven E. Harris
2004-08-04 16:54 ` authinfo encryption through netrc.el works now (was: authinfo/netrc file encryption status -- GnuPG) Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-04 17:55 ` authinfo encryption through netrc.el works now Simon Josefsson
2004-08-05 22:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-06 17:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-06 18:07 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-08-04 18:37 ` Steven E. Harris
2004-08-05 22:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-05 22:59 ` Steven E. Harris [this message]
2004-08-06 17:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-06 18:18 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-08-06 21:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-04 22:55 ` authinfo/netrc file encryption status -- GnuPG Steven E. Harris
2004-08-06 17:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
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