From: Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu>
Subject: Re: Canceling articles -- what is my password?
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:56:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sn9rtphb.fsf@fermat.mts.jhu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r8pbpv8e.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Mon, 31 Dec 2001 04:57:31 -0500")
prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
> Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu> wrote:
>> I tried to cancel an article today. I was prompted for a password. I
>> had no idea what it was. I looked in my custom.el file and found
>>
>> '(canlock-password "some long string" t)
>>
>> I pasted that in and it seemed to work. Is this the right way to do
>> this?
>
> It's not wrong, but the right way would be to put that setting
> somewhere where it will be loaded so you don't have to type it in.
> Apparently that part of your custom.el is not being loaded, or
> something is overriding it later.
I'm pretty sure that it is being loaded as I can C-h v
canlock-password and see that long string. Is it intended that if
that variable is non-nil then I shouldn't be prompted for a password?
I just tried in alt.test. I am prompted for a password even though
the variable is set.
--
Nevin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-31 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-30 19:10 Nevin Kapur
2001-12-31 9:57 ` Paul Jarc
2001-12-31 14:56 ` Nevin Kapur [this message]
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