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: bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:18:21 -0600 Organization: =?UTF-8?Q?=D0=A2=D0=B5=D0=BE=D0=B4=D0=BE=D1=80_?= =?UTF-8?Q?=D0=97=D0=BB=D0=B0=D1=82=D0=B0=D0=BD=D0=BE=D0=B2?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87k44ffsdu.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87mxgcffq1.fsf@niu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327519195 31665 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2012 19:19:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9113@debbugs.gnu.org To: Roland Winkler Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 25 20:19:45 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rq8Nl-0004ig-4N for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:19:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34308 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rq8Nk-0005IS-FE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:19:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rq8Ne-0005C5-N9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:19:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rq8Na-0002Ob-JY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:19:38 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:38434) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rq8Na-0002OS-Fb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:19:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rq8O1-00049m-Nr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:20:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Ted Zlatanov Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:20:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9113 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9113-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9113.132751917015917 (code B ref 9113); Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:20:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9113) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Jan 2012 19:19:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43810 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rq8NU-00048d-04 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from cer-mailmxol2.jumptrading.com ([208.78.214.25]:6571) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rq8NQ-00048Q-QC for 9113@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:19:26 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApwEAGMjIE/AqF0N/2dsb2JhbABDr0OBcgEBBXkQCw0UJQ8BBEkOBcAoiSsCAQoCIgWDeAaDNQSIP5JYjHc Original-Received: from unknown (HELO chiexchange02.w2k.jumptrading.com) ([192.168.93.13]) by cer-mailmxol2.jumptrading.com with ESMTP; 25 Jan 2012 19:20:17 +0000 Original-Received: from internalsmtp.w2k.jumptrading.com (10.2.4.29) by chiexchange02.w2k.jumptrading.com (10.2.4.71) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.2.176.0; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:18:51 -0600 Original-Received: from tzlatanov-ubuntu-desktop.jumptrading.com ([10.2.27.110]) by internalsmtp.w2k.jumptrading.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:18:51 -0600 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" Mail-Copies-To: never Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes In-Reply-To: <87mxgcffq1.fsf@niu.edu> (Roland Winkler's message of "Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:08:22 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Jan 2012 19:18:51.0160 (UTC) FILETIME=[2BB28980:01CCDB96] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:55997 Archived-At: On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:08:22 -0500 "Roland Winkler" wrote: RW> If an authinfo file does not exists and the user has not customized RW> anything, something like smtpmail will create a new file .authinfo RW> with the appropriate entry. RW> I suggest that instead the code should try first to generate a file RW> .authinfo.gpg and if this fails it should warn the user that Emacs RW> is going to create a file .authinfo, which can be very unsafe. RW> In this context, the doc string of auth-sources is, unfortunately, RW> not too helpful: RW> See the auth.info manual for details. RW> [snip] RW> It's best to customize this with `M-x customize-variable' because RW> the choices can get pretty complex." RW> The default value of auth-sources should be such that the user is, RW> at least, on the safe side. The Emacs maintainers asked me to make the default unencrypted. I don't think they will change their position. Ted