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From: Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
To: Brady Trainor <algebrat@uw.edu>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Prevent "save to ~/.authinfo[Y/y/N/n]" prompt
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 01:59:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egutzzwh.fsf@skimble.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3yumac3.fsf@uw.edu> (Brady Trainor's message of "Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:38:04 -0700")


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Brady Trainor <algebrat@uw.edu> writes:

> Hi, something is wrong with my gpg use, so until I fix it, I will just
> enter my password for each use. (I will likely start a new thread about
> my gpg soon.) 
>
> But something I never really liked, is the prompt when doing so to save
> this information in `~/.authinfo'. 
>
> Is there a way to prevent this prompt. I think it'd be nice for initial
> setup of Gnus as well, as storing passwords (securely) may not be the
> first thing you get around to, and one may get nervous about accidently
> saving it in this plain text file.

Hi Brady.

I have *never* seen this behaviour, so maybe it is some slight quirk at
your end which is causing it? Perhaps the way that something is
saved/configured in your gpg setup? But whatever is causing it, it is
definitely non-standard behaviour!

Sharon.
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-30  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-29 20:38 Brady Trainor
2014-09-30  0:59 ` Sharon Kimble [this message]
2014-09-30  2:25   ` Brady Trainor

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