From: Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>
To: 34458@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34458: 27.0.50; Gnus's nnimap truncates password
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:49:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875ztplzo8.fsf@aminb.org> (raw)
It seems that when the combined length of username + password for an
imap login exceeds certain length, nnimap tries to log into the server
with a truncated password.
Example:
Say I have the following line in ~/.authinfo.gpg:
machine mymchn login myuserid@hereis.alongaddr.ca password VAdlmhgtPX3RQpV2bfr8ilj6Qptr0Omz
I was wondering why Gnus wasn’t able to log into the server, though I
had made sure I was using the correct username and password. Upon
looking into server logs, I noticed that the login attempts were made
using VAdlmhgtPX3RQpV2bfr8ilj6Qpt as the password (notice that r0Omz is
missing at the end) instead of the correct full password.
Then I tried with a shorter username like below and it worked just fine:
machine mymchn login myuserid@hereis.ca password VAdlmhgtPX3RQpV2bfr8ilj6Qptr0Omz
If I recall correctly, this issue also happens without adding a machine
entry to ~/.authinfo.gpg (i.e. by filling out the username and password
prompt); which leads me to think that the issue is not with auth-source.
next reply other threads:[~2019-02-12 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-12 16:49 Amin Bandali [this message]
2019-06-22 13:01 ` bug#34458: 27.0.50; Gnus's nnimap truncates password Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-22 13:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-29 18:32 ` Amin Bandali
2019-07-04 13:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-12 23:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-13 3:20 ` Amin Bandali
2019-07-13 3:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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