From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Modifying Emacs to use the Mac OS X Keychain Services
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:45:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87boiwdje6.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87haspid8q.fsf@gmx.de
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:34:45 +0200 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
MA> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> I haven't heard from Ben Key (CC-ed on this post) in a year so I figured
>> it's simpler to implement this myself. I've pushed something into the
>> Gnus repo, which you can test. It doesn't support creation or deletion,
>> but searching works.
MA> Wouldn't this be a good time to extend auth-source.el by a backend
MA> concept? You have mentioned it as todo, and I belive it would pay. These
MA> two new backend work only for Mac OS; the Secret Services backend is good
MA> for GNU/Linux.
It already uses backends; see the following calls:
#+begin_src lisp
(auth-source-backend-parse "myfile.gpg")
(auth-source-backend-parse 'default)
(auth-source-backend-parse "secrets:Login")
(auth-source-backend-parse 'macos-keychain-internet)
(auth-source-backend-parse 'macos-keychain-generic)
(auth-source-backend-parse "macos-keychain-internet:/path/here.keychain")
(auth-source-backend-parse "macos-keychain-generic:/path/here.keychain")
#+end_src
The developer pain, at this point, seems to be that
1) each backend has to implement its own treatment of the general search
parameters (:source :type :user :host :port :max), and interpret them in
its own domain; and
2) I use flat plists but most Emacs developers don't. That's my
impression, at least, and perhaps the reason I haven't seen any
contributions to auth-source.el besides the `plstore' backend from Daiki
Ueno, which was mostly a copy of the `netrc' backend.
If you or anyone else has suggestions on redesigning auth-source.el and
perhaps changing its call interface, please speak up (with patches or
words).
Thanks
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-31 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-01 2:04 Modifying Emacs to use the Mac OS X Keychain Services Ben Key
2011-06-01 2:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-05 18:54 ` Ben Key
2011-06-05 20:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-06 20:26 ` Michael Albinus
2011-06-07 3:34 ` Ben Key
2011-06-07 7:58 ` Michael Albinus
[not found] ` <BANLkTin1DxY33iaQ5=9KJKD_gwQvsJwJ8Q@mail.gmail.com>
2011-06-08 5:50 ` Ben Key
2011-06-08 20:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-07-27 15:20 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-07-28 12:16 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-07-28 16:33 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-07-28 16:45 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-07-29 22:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-07-30 13:34 ` Michael Albinus
2012-07-31 15:45 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2012-08-20 13:42 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-08-20 13:49 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-08-20 14:02 ` Dave Abrahams
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-06-12 2:28 Ben Key
2011-06-12 4:18 ` Ben Key
2011-06-12 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-12 22:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-13 3:14 ` Ben Key
2011-06-14 3:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-15 2:15 ` Ben Key
2011-06-15 15:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-15 16:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-06-15 20:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-15 23:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-17 20:31 ` Chong Yidong
2011-06-12 22:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-11 0:30 Ben Key
2011-06-11 1:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-05 23:23 Ben Key
2011-06-06 0:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-30 1:08 Ben Key
2011-05-30 1:19 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-05-30 12:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-28 18:32 Ben Key
2011-05-28 2:56 Ben Key
2011-05-28 11:09 ` Michael Albinus
2011-05-28 13:00 ` Ben Key
2011-05-28 14:32 ` Michael Albinus
2011-05-28 17:16 ` Ben Key
2011-05-28 18:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-28 19:38 ` Michael Albinus
2011-05-28 15:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
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