From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roland Winkler" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:08:22 -0500 Message-ID: <87mxgcffq1.fsf@niu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310958573 1157 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2011 03:09:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:09:33 +0000 (UTC) To: 9113@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 18 05:09:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QieD3-0004UK-IQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:09:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QieD2-0001EN-30 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:09:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QieCh-0001Dm-0Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:09:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QieCd-0001sZ-SJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:09:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37940) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QieCd-0001sM-EN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QieCb-0005bY-Rt; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:09:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Roland Winkler" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:09:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 9113 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.131095853421529 (code B ref -1); Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:09:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Jul 2011 03:08:54 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QieCT-0005bC-H8 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:08:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QieCR-0005az-58 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:08:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QieCE-0001m8-6d for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:08:45 -0400 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]:41261) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QieCD-0001ls-Jw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53799) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QieCB-00018J-54 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:08:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QieC7-0001kj-K1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:08:34 -0400 Original-Received: from tfkpsv.physik.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.164.197]:3585) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QieC7-0001kV-7O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:08:31 -0400 Original-Received: from regnitz (unknown [210.45.117.226]) by tfkpsv.physik.uni-erlangen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29CB728C30 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:08:27 +0200 (CEST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:09:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:49377 Archived-At: If an authinfo file does not exists and the user has not customized anything, something like smtpmail will create a new file .authinfo with the appropriate entry. I suggest that instead the code should try first to generate a file .authinfo.gpg and if this fails it should warn the user that Emacs is going to create a file .authinfo, which can be very unsafe. In this context, the doc string of auth-sources is, unfortunately, not too helpful: See the auth.info manual for details. [snip] It's best to customize this with `M-x customize-variable' because the choices can get pretty complex." The default value of auth-sources should be such that the user is, at least, on the safe side. In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2011-07-16 on regnitz Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000 Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: C value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.utf8 value of $LANG: en_US.ISO-8859-15 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Mail