Re: Supersede asks for password for canlock...

Re: Supersede asks for password for canlock...

[Simon Josefsson]

Jan Exner <exner@gmx.net> writes:

> I recently upgraded from Emacs 20.7/gnus 5.8.8 to Emacs 21.2/Oort gnus
> 0.06.

Good, please keep transition problem reports coming.  Upgrading to
Oort should be smooth, but I'm sure it isn't well tested.

> Today, for the first time since, I tried to supersede an article and
> gnus or emacs asked me for "Password for Canlock:". I have no clue
> what that password might be, and those I tried ("" and my own) did not
> work.

This happens if you try to supersede an article with a Cancel-Lock
header and you don't have a local cancel lock password configured.

The cancel lock password is generated when you post, and then saved in
your ~/.emacs.  So there are two reasons why you didn't have a cancel
lock password: 1) you didn't post the article 2) saving the
cancel-lock password failed.

As it happens, it was 3) the cancel-lock code uses a separate variable
when verifying messages that would have been set correctly if you
restarted Emacs, but not if you tried to supersede an article in the
same Emacs session as the one where you ran Oort for the first time.

The following has been committed.

--- message.el.~6.241.~	2002-07-26 20:04:07.000000000 +0200
+++ message.el	2002-08-09 22:22:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -3135,7 +3135,8 @@
 This is the value of `canlock-password', if that option is non-nil.
 Otherwise, generate and save a value for `canlock-password' first."
   (unless canlock-password
-    (customize-save-variable 'canlock-password (message-canlock-generate)))
+    (customize-save-variable 'canlock-password (message-canlock-generate))
+    (setq canlock-password-for-verify canlock-password))
   canlock-password)
 
 (defun message-insert-canlock ()

Re: Supersede asks for password for canlock...

[Jan Exner]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

>> I recently upgraded from Emacs 20.7/gnus 5.8.8 to Emacs 21.2/Oort
>> gnus 0.06.
> Good, please keep transition problem reports coming.  Upgrading to
> Oort should be smooth, but I'm sure it isn't well tested.

I installed Oort-0.07 today, and supersede still asks me for a
password.

Was I too soon? Should 0.08 fix it?

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Re: Supersede asks for password for canlock...

[Jesper Harder]

Jan Exner <exner@gmx.net> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Good, please keep transition problem reports coming.  Upgrading to
>> Oort should be smooth, but I'm sure it isn't well tested.
>
> I installed Oort-0.07 today, and supersede
> [ ] still does not work
> [ ] works
>
> Let's see...

You'll need to pull Gnus from CVS -- Simons fix isn't in Oort 0.07.

-- 
One of the good things about EMACS, though, is its programmability and
the modelessness.  Those are two ideas which never occurred to me.
-- Bill Joy, 1984

Re: Supersede asks for password for canlock...

[Vasily Korytov]

>>>>> "JE" == Jan Exner writes:

 JE> Moin!
 JE> I recently upgraded from Emacs 20.7/gnus 5.8.8 to Emacs 21.2/Oort gnus
 JE> 0.06.

 JE> Today, for the first time since, I tried to supersede an article and
 JE> gnus or emacs asked me for "Password for Canlock:". I have no clue
 JE> what that password might be, and those I tried ("" and my own) did not
 JE> work.

 JE> Can anybody give me a hint or tell me what happens?

,----[ C-h v canlock-password RET ]
| `canlock-password' is a variable declared in Lisp.
|   -- loaded from "canlock"
| 
| Value: "[undisclosed =))]"
| 
| Documentation:
| Password to use when signing a Cancel-Lock or a Cancel-Key header.
`----

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