From: Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to set gnus authinfo file
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 15:44:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ruoy44psb15.fsf@billwmaclap.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87poquriq6.fsf@riseup.net>
On Sun Jul 03 2016 at 07:47, Alice Bob <alicebob@riseup.net> wrote:
> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
>
>> Alice 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 am not sure yet. AFAIS, only Emacs/Gnus use ~/.authinfo.gpg (by default).
tramp and org-jira do. if i use one of them first thing in a fresh
emacs, i'm prompted to decrypt ~/.authinfo.gpg. and i recently wrote a
mathematica shell script that had to access an internal web server with
authentication, so i wrote a little authinfo parser for it to avoid
storing my password in the code.
cheers -
bw
bill white . billw@wolfram.com
"no ma'am, we're musicians."
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2016-06-12 6:12 Alice Bob
2016-06-12 9:58 ` Martin
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2016-06-12 12:07 ` Alice Bob
2016-06-12 13:47 ` Emanuel Berg
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2016-07-03 11:17 ` Alice Bob
2016-07-03 12:03 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-07-09 8:17 ` Tassilo Horn
[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 [this message]
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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