From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58200 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Steven E. Harris" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: authinfo encryption through netrc.el works now Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 15:59:36 -0700 Organization: SEH Labs 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> <4npt65ckbe.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 1091746836 18317 80.91.224.253 (5 Aug 2004 23:00:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 23:00:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6741@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Aug 06 01:00:28 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 1BsrDn-0004um-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:00:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BsrDE-0000g7-00; Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:59:52 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BsrD7-0000g1-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:59:45 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BsrD4-0001rh-Tu for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:59:42 -0500 Original-Received: from W003275.na.alarismed.com (unknown [204.193.55.129]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED133A003C for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 17:59:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sharris by W003275.na.alarismed.com with local (Exim 4.41) id I1ZX7D-00026G-0T for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2004 15:59:37 -0700 Original-To: "Ding Mailing List" Mail-Followup-To: "Ding Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <4npt65ckbe.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "5 Aug 2004 18:05:25 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, cygwin32) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58200 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58200 "Ted Zlatanov" 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