From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41279 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nevin Kapur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Canceling articles -- what is my password? Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:56:57 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176698 5249 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:04:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 20883 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2001 14:57:47 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 31 Dec 2001 14:57:47 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16L3sO-0001NA-00; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 08:57:20 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 31 Dec 2001 08:57:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA10865 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 08:57:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 20863 invoked by alias); 31 Dec 2001 14:56:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20858 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2001 14:56:58 -0000 Original-Received: from fermat.mts.jhu.edu (128.220.17.18) by gnus.org with SMTP; 31 Dec 2001 14:56:58 -0000 Original-Received: (from nevin@localhost) by fermat.mts.jhu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBVEuv001685; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:56:57 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: fermat.mts.jhu.edu: nevin set sender to nevin@jhu.edu using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "}x>;}S:N_`kF{u;w~R^Fe*Ysn["Ou0s5d,GD9`l'^V1UFE.&8bt\Kcvd>>@o&Ehu3OAr,O X{vA"_/u$}g%%&iGDLYg4fFRvveC^c[?vmU"Z{%1fS/[(OwYlAR[E|"_.t%fBh_e-.vl-dgG0/2`xU +/~GsHPhywfTtG{V1:Yb-`XchhMQ,#c9Q.W^*_+6AL]S~'<617#yK4{y+Vqn;;"6g`90XJXY}M?4:S k In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Mon, 31 Dec 2001 04:57:31 -0500") Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41279 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41279 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > Nevin Kapur 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