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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to set gnus authinfo file
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 10:17:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2gvmdht.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3bb53pb.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk>

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

>> Ha, this is my idead: since `authinfo.gpg' is only for Gnus mail
>> authentication, why not put it under emacs directory? File under
>> home (~/.authinfo.gpg) should be used for the whole user
>> account. Is this reasonable?
>
> Do any other programs use ~/.authinfo.gpg?

I think so.

,----[ (info "(auth)Overview") ]
| The auth-source library is simply a way for Emacs and Gnus, among
|                                                             ^^^^^
| others, to answer the old burning question “What are my user name and
| ^^^^^^
| password?”
`----

And looking at my ~/.authinfo.gpg, I have at least two entries which are
not mail servers although I cannot remember why I've put them there.
One of them is the old Gnus git repository, so maybe Magit/VC are able
to read credentials there when pushing?

Bye,
Tassilo


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-09  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-12  6:12 Alice Bob
2016-06-12  9:58 ` Martin
     [not found] ` <mailman.1360.1465725527.1216.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-06-12 12:07   ` Alice Bob
2016-06-12 13:47     ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1372.1465739295.1216.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-07-03 11:17       ` Alice Bob
2016-07-03 12:03         ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-07-09  8:17           ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
     [not found]           ` <mailman.876.1468052289.26859.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-07-11 15:18             ` Ted Zlatanov
     [not found]         ` <mailman.463.1467547410.26859.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-07-03 12:47           ` Alice Bob
2016-07-25 20:44             ` Bill White
2016-07-26  8:26               ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-06-12 12:20 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-06-12 12:32   ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-06-13  2:15   ` Eric Abrahamsen
     [not found] ` <mailman.1366.1465734069.1216.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-07-03 11:20   ` Alice Bob

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