From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: "David Spångberg" <david@tunna.org>
Cc: 18842-done@debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Subject: bug#18842: 24.4; gnus not handling passwords with double quotes in .authinfo
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:58:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4rtcoas.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppdd71nj.fsf@laptop.roflmf> ("David \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?Sp\=E5ng\?\= \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?berg\=22's\?\= message of "Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:28:32 +0100")
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:28:32 +0100 David Spångberg <david@tunna.org> wrote:
DS> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>>
>>> IBM says[1]:
>>> If the password phrase itself contains a quotation mark, use
>>> the other style of quotation mark to enclose the password phrase.
>>>
>>> I.e.: 'test"password'
>>>
>>> The rule is enough to handle such a case, isn't it?
DS> This solves the problem for me at least.
>> Until you start using both. :-)
DS> IBM further bans using both forms at the same time so I guess it's a
DS> problem with the specification rather than the implementation in
DS> "auth-source.el".
I've explained the situation in the auth.texi manual with this commit to
gnus.git, which will be synchronized into Emacs as well:
commit 01c75b7c8e4ecbdaea6dda97b113a76c60458620
Author: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Date: Sun Nov 2 15:45:34 2014 -0500
* auth.texi (Help for users): Explain quoting rules better.
Background: the original netrc.el parser just used the Lisp reader. But
that reader doesn't support single-quoted strings, which is the standard
netrc format, so I modified the parser accordingly in gnus.git:
commit 1474b920b7471e4bdb4f983b98fb767d61f8037b
Author: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Date: Sat Jun 15 04:03:04 2013 -0400
auth-source netrc backend: Support single-quoted strings, multiline entries.
I've never seen passwords or other tokens with both single and double
quotes, so IMO the current parser in `auth-source-netrc-parse-one' is
sufficient. But I'm happy to take patches or demands for it to support
some other style. Marking this bug as done, in any case.
Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-02 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-26 11:54 bug#18842: 24.4; gnus not handling passwords with double quotes in .authinfo David Spångberg
2014-10-26 23:40 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2014-10-27 10:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-27 19:28 ` David Spångberg
2014-11-02 20:58 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
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