From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: 9113@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:18:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k44ffsdu.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxgcffq1.fsf@niu.edu> (Roland Winkler's message of "Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:08:22 -0500")
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:08:22 -0500 "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> wrote:
RW> If an authinfo file does not exists and the user has not customized
RW> anything, something like smtpmail will create a new file .authinfo
RW> with the appropriate entry.
RW> I suggest that instead the code should try first to generate a file
RW> .authinfo.gpg and if this fails it should warn the user that Emacs
RW> is going to create a file .authinfo, which can be very unsafe.
RW> In this context, the doc string of auth-sources is, unfortunately,
RW> not too helpful:
RW> See the auth.info manual for details.
RW> [snip]
RW> It's best to customize this with `M-x customize-variable' because
RW> the choices can get pretty complex."
RW> The default value of auth-sources should be such that the user is,
RW> at least, on the safe side.
The Emacs maintainers asked me to make the default unencrypted. I don't
think they will change their position.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-25 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 3:08 bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg Roland Winkler
2012-01-25 20:18 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2012-01-26 2:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-26 15:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-26 17:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-26 17:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-26 17:53 ` Achim Gratz
2012-01-26 20:01 ` bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, " Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-26 21:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-30 16:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-30 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-30 22:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-31 9:00 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-31 17:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-13 17:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-13 18:35 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-27 1:47 ` bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, " Daiki Ueno
2012-01-27 16:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-29 9:50 ` Daiki Ueno
2012-01-30 16:33 ` bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-31 6:55 ` Chong Yidong
2012-01-31 11:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-03 17:14 ` Kevin Rodgers
2012-01-31 11:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-31 11:37 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-13 17:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-28 8:47 ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-28 19:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-28 19:32 ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-30 16:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-30 18:49 ` Roland Winkler
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