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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: 27445@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27445: 26.0.50; Insufficient documentation for pinentry.el
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 06:29:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vano7ihu.fsf@drachen> (raw)


Hallo,

I followed the instructions in pinentry.el, but failed.  There is no
more documentation available.  I'm running a very normal Debian.

Since entering passwords is a quite common thing, and this is about the
user's security, shouldn't this deserve some more extensive information
or be described in the manual?

FWIW, after searching the Internet, I found several pieces of
information that seem to be missing in the documentation in the file
header of pinentry.el: I seemingly have to build pinentry-emacs if it's
not available, for example.

After having tried over an hour, I finally was in a state where I got no
more password prompts at all.

I'm thankful that I had the luck to be able to restore the previous
state so that I got my Email working again and could open this report.
This should not happen to others.


Thanks in advance,

Michael.


In GNU Emacs 26.0.50 (build 3, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.11)
 of 2017-06-19 built on drachen
Repository revision: 1b75af59b305867c89271905be72a05d06a4eff4
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11903000
System Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 (stretch)






             reply	other threads:[~2017-06-22  4:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-22  4:29 Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2017-10-26 12:00 ` bug#27445: 26.0.50; Insufficient documentation for pinentry.el Michael Heerdegen
2017-10-28  9:13   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-18  9:50     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-19  7:07       ` Daiki Ueno
2017-11-20 17:55         ` Andy Moreton
2017-11-21 12:15           ` Daiki Ueno
2017-11-21 15:56             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-21 19:59               ` Daiki Ueno
2017-11-22 15:46                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-22 16:18                   ` Daiki Ueno
2017-11-23  1:06                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-23  5:08                       ` Daiki Ueno
2017-11-24  7:04                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-24 10:49                           ` Daiki Ueno
2017-11-24 13:40                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-24 15:04                               ` Daiki Ueno
2017-11-24 15:41                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-24 17:54                             ` Richard Stallman
2017-11-20 19:33         ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-21  6:19           ` Daiki Ueno
2017-11-27 22:12 ` diego
2017-12-12  9:19 ` Rasmus
2017-12-22  9:49   ` Eli Zaretskii

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