Hi Michael,

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 4:18 PM Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
wrote:

> Thomas Hisch <t.hisch@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> > returns nil. The reason for this is that
> > `auth-source-user-and-password` searches for an entry with a plist key
> > :host and not with the key :service.
> >
> > I know that I can manually pass the search spec to `auth-source-search
> > `,
> > but I want to keep the auth code in my pkg as high-level as
> > possible. I also don't want to break anything for
> > users that use different auth-sources.
> >
> > Is the implementation of auth-source.el, e.g.
> > `auth-source-user-and-password`, supposed
> > to support reading of secrets stored in a keyring, which are not
> > created by emacs?
>
> That's a very good question. AFAIK, there is no common schema for the
> Login keyring, so you are best served to use entries which have been
> created with the same application.
>

I also don't think that there is a common schema for the Login keyring, but
I'll ask the python-keyring
developers why they have chosen the fieldname "service".

BR, Thomas.