Re: master 893111f 2/2: Hide passwords in .authinfo and .netrc files

[Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> larsi@gnus.org (Lars Ingebrigtsen) writes:
>>
>>> +      (while (re-search-forward "\\bpassword +\\([^\n\t ]+\\)"
>>
>> Would it make more sense to use '\s-' rather than '\b' here?  With '\b',
>> it will match the ‘password’ in an entry like `gnus-canlock-password'
>> and thus wrongly add the display property to the next word, in this case
>> “password”, rather than to the actual password itself.
>
> Good point.  I used \\b because I was thinking about whether "password"
> could be the first token on a the line, but I've now changed the regexp
> to be
>
> "\\(\\s-\\|^\\)password\\s-+\\([^\n\t ]+\\)"

Works well now, thanks!

On a side note, I wonder it would be too much to have the keyword(s) be
customizeable?  For instance, I use my authinfo file to store entries
with multiple “secret” parts, such as the following:

machine xyz client-id 62308.619 client-secret ce2e92 token x-27f57e9a

It would be nice if there were a defcustom e.g. `authinfo-hidden-parts',
defaulting to “password”, which one could add other keywords to, such as
“client-secret” and “token”.