From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 34145@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34145: 27.0.50; Writing .authinfo needs better confirmation
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:21:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mue9zhk5.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736pn8uw0.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Sun, 20 Jan 2019 11:51:11 +0100")
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> A Tramp user has reported recently, that writing a password into
> .authinfo happened too easily, without proper confirmation
> request. Granted, there was a `y-or-no-p' style question, but obviously
> he has accepted w/o thinking too much. See
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2019-01/msg00054.html>.
>
> Since this is sensible data, he proposes to make it harder to
> confirm. `auth-source-netrc-saver' should offer an alternative
> confirmation prompt, more like `yes-or-no-p'. Which prompt to apply
> should be configurable.
It's a multiple-choice thing:
(concat "(y)es, save\n"
"(n)o but use the info\n"
"(N)o and don't ask to save again\n"
"(e)dit the line\n"
"(?) for help as you can see.\n"))
So I don't think a yes-or-no-p-like action here is practical.
Anybody got an opinion?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-20 10:51 bug#34145: 27.0.50; Writing .authinfo needs better confirmation Michael Albinus
2019-10-09 22:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-10-10 5:26 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-11 7:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-11 10:02 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-13 18:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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