From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:48:02 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <8739q54g7x.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292010014 24116 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 19:40:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:40:14 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 20:40:08 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PR8p6-0000R5-8b for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:40:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PR8p5-0006v7-Id for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:40:07 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net QzFWyytK9TqctQHG8Z+E6spjEp6P2Lsd6Uoh+z+WwiU49+Zto62p2wr9il4tAyOX9IPXIh2bdJZFl3exrObh/lwXtPza+E+tBsxdxpJdaIEOfalapBXTkax+c2cmxCrj Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:48:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:bdnPFGVxMkXEY625RxoWOZdMwKk= sha1:TQJN0x1dTaFctXi819PnHISq9kQ= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="JSkPjgLeJK9Ma4cCmb7Ewgq675W9qaKiX8BmQQMrku8gYwX3tiN3CvmuXEY3um2Fjp0JUxv866Yro1fYmaZCscjDrCNB2pGGz9GA+dt9I8eijlQqGlDI4rAdNdyk1dhv"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.bug:69715 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:42399 Archived-At: On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:10:35 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Stefan Monnier writes: >>> that I'm tempted to go back to just storing this data in the plain-text >>> ~/.authinfo file until all this has been worked out. >> >> No!!!! Or only after prompting the user five times for >> (different) confirmation. LMI> If you look at other widely used software packages, like Firefox, they LMI> default to just storing the passwords in an (obfuscated) non-encrypted LMI> file. I don't think that's such a bad default. It's a terrible default IMO. But you knew I'd say that :) LMI> If you want a more complicated credential storage setup, then that LMI> should be a user option, not a default. At present, the ~/.authinfo.gpg LMI> credential storage is not something you can present to a normal user and LMI> expect them to understand at all. How about a .sgpg or .spg extension that signals EPA/EPG that only symmetric encryption is desired? Ted