Re: ERC do not use my password from authinfo

["J.P." <jp@neverwas.me>]

Hi Sébastien,

Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I try to connect to an IRC server, with ERC, but I have a problem to make
> it use my password saved in ~/.authinfo.
>
> In my .emacs/init.el, I have defined this interactive function to
> connect to Libera.chat with ERC:
>
> (defun erc-mememememe@libera.chat ()
>   "Log on freenode with mememememe user"
>   (interactive)
>   (erc-tls :server "irc.libera.chat"
>            :port 6697
>            :nick "mememememe")
>   )
>
> On my ~/.authinfo.gpg file, I have an entry for Libera.ch server, with
> my nickname:
>
> machine irc.libera.chat login mememememe password…
>
> But when I run the function "erc-mememememe@libera.chat", ERC connect
> without my password.
>
> I didn't found any specific information on the manual about why. My
> Emacs version is 29.3.
>
> Someone have an idea?

I tried a similar setup with Emacs 29 (21b2954c) and cannot reproduce
your issue.

Contents of ~/.authinfo:

  machine irc.libera.chat user mynick password mypass

From emacs -Q:

  M-: (erc-tls :server "irc.libera.chat" :port 6697 :nick "mynick") RET

Please try again from emacs -Q, maybe with a temporary ~/.authsource
(with and without the .gpg). And when reporting back, please mention the
contents of the relevant buffers, if any. And maybe also eval

  (require 'erc)
  (erc-toggle-debug-irc-protocol)

prior to connecting, and then check the *erc-protocol* buffer for clues
afterwards. Be sure to restart Emacs whenever you tweak ~/.authsource to
ensure you're not hitting the cache. And if you haven't already, see the
suggestions in the troubleshooting portion of the manual [1].

Thanks,
J.P.

P.S. In an effort to spare the good people of this list from excessive
ERC chatter, perhaps consider replacing the help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org with
emacs-erc@gnu.org in the Cc of any further related correspondences.

[1] https://elpa.gnu.org/devel/doc/erc.html#Troubleshooting-1