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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: [gnus git] Add ~/.authinfo to the default, since that's probably most useful for users.
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:40:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pqwbkql4.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwx7nrkx.fsf@news.realpath.org>

Sebastian Krause <sebastian@realpath.org> writes:

> Personally, I don't like to enter my long GnuPG password every time
> I start up Gnus. It's safe enough anyway because I use full disk
> encryption with LUKS. Or maybe those passwords are not too important
> because they're only for a simple Usenet server. So, warning users
> shouldn't be too noisy because there might be good reasons of using
> the unencrypted file.

Yup.  If we're going to warn people about having "unsafe" passwords, it
shouldn't be intrusive.

And if there was a nice, painless road towards storing the passwords in
~/.authinfo.gpg, that would be nice.  That is, if the user is queried
for user name/password, then auth-source.el should store it encrypted,
and not in the plain ~/.authinfo file.

(At least it's not stored there when I try it, but I might just not have
stuff set up correctly.)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen




  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-18 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1OwjUu-0007Om-00@quimby.gnus.org>
2010-09-18  6:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-18 11:47   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-20  2:30     ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-20  8:14       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-20 15:03         ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-25 12:47           ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-25 13:56             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-25 15:12             ` Ted Zlatanov
     [not found]               ` <87mxr46gv9.fsf@hillenius.net>
2010-09-26 12:27                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-26 12:38                   ` tls.el I added '--insecure' (Was :Re: [gnus git] Add ~/.authinfo to the default, since that's probably most useful for users.) Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-26 20:53                     ` tls.el I added '--insecure' Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-20 10:47       ` [gnus git] Add ~/.authinfo to the default, since that's probably most useful for users Sebastian Krause
2010-09-20 14:59         ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-20 18:40           ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-20 14:27       ` Richard Riley
2010-09-20 15:01         ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-20 15:29           ` Richard Riley
2010-09-18 12:50   ` Sebastian Krause
2010-09-18 15:40     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2010-09-18 21:29       ` Sebastian Krause
2010-09-18 21:31         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-20 11:03   ` Robert Pluim
2010-09-20 14:10     ` Richard Riley
2010-09-20 14:59       ` Robert Pluim
2010-09-20 15:26     ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-20 15:43       ` Tibor Simko
2010-09-20 15:53       ` Robert Pluim
2010-09-21 16:19       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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