From: Pankaj Jangid <p4j@j4d.net>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Tramp behaviour with ~/.authinfo.gpg; two queries
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:10:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0100016f9e622ba7-1326bbd8-6e70-4afe-87e1-deb114322570-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kx2gdpf.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Sat, 11 Jan 2020 17:28:12 +0100")
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>> In a fresh instance of Emacs (27.0.60), if I try to open a remote ssh
>> file, Tramp tries to load ~/.authinfo.gpg and asks for passphrase. This
>> is okay. But the problem is this - as I start typing "/ssh:.." the
>> passphrase prompt also come at the same input area. And when I start
>> typing passphrase characters it starts switching back and forth between
>> "Find file:" and "Passphrase:" prompts. I have (setq epg-pinentry-mode
>> 'loopback) in my config.
>>
>> As a workaround, I cancel the operation. And then I start Gnus (or some
>> other package that can load ~/.authinfo.gpg). Enter passphrase. And then
>> open the desired remote file.
>>
>> Is there a proper way to handle this?
>
> No idea. I'll try to reproduce.
>
Michael, did you get any chance to reproduce this issue. Although, this
is not a serious issue at my end because this is just one time thing
because the password is saved in ~/.authinfo[.gpg]. But this could be
annoying for new users.
>> When I open a remote ssh file and connect to the server for the first
>> time, Tramp offers to save the password in ~/.authinfo even if the file
>> ~/.authinfo.gpg exists and is already loaded (by some other package like
>> Gnus).
>>
>> How can I tell Tramp to save passwords in ~/.authinfo.gpg?
>
> The default value of auth-sources is '("~/.authinfo" "~/.authinfo.gpg"
> "~/.netrc")
>
> I suppose that auth-source checks one file after the other whether it
> exist, when searching for a password. But when it wants to save the
> password, it seems to take the first entry in auth-sources, instead of
> checking, whether one of the files exist (and use this one).
>
> In your case, I recommend to change the value of auth-sources to just
> '("~/.authinfo.gpg")
>
> However, this seems to be a bug in auth-source.el, so you might write a
> bug report.
I have submitted a bug report for this.
Regards
--
Pankaj Jangid
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-13 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-11 11:03 Tramp behaviour with ~/.authinfo.gpg; two queries Pankaj Jangid
2020-01-11 11:32 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-11 13:37 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-01-11 14:14 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-11 16:28 ` Michael Albinus
2020-01-13 10:10 ` Pankaj Jangid [this message]
2020-01-13 10:39 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-01-13 16:26 ` Michael Albinus
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