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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: akater <nuclearspace@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reconsider password-cache policy
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:09:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dhdupxz.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7ghz17n.fsf@gmail.com> (akater's message of "Mon, 26 Jul 2021 12:52:44 +0000")

akater <nuclearspace@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

> There is no point in allowing one library to use the cache but
> disallowing another to do it.  It does not help with security as any
> Elisp code can access that data anyway, any time, while added complexity
> is always bad for security.  In contrast, there certainly must be a
> clear way to turn caching off once and for all.  Given the current
> policy, it can not possibly exist.  Multiplying ~..-do-cache~ variables
> across elisp libraries will not do users any good.

Setting password-cache-expiry to 0 should do this?

> I also think that password caching should be turned off by default.

I disagree. There are cases you cannot work properly w/o password
caching. See for example the recent discussion about Tramp's sudoedit
method in bug#49724.

Best regards, Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-26 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-26 12:52 Reconsider password-cache policy akater
2021-07-26 14:09 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2021-08-27 21:47   ` akater
2021-08-28  8:19     ` Michael Albinus

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