From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:38:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IpJxB-0003Hp-4I@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y7dd2e0f.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> (message from Simon Josefsson on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:16:48 +0100)
There are solutions intended to address the real problem here: GnuPG
uses a helper program pin-entry that asks the user for passwords. I
believe it can cache passwords too. However, this is not widely used,
and definitely not used or known except to GnuPG users. I'm not
convinced it is mature enough to be suggested as a solution for password
input in emacs. And anyway, you'd still have the gc-problem in emacs if
the password is transfered into an emacs elisp variable.
Is pin-entry the program that is supposed to avoid the need to enter
passwords thru any other program? I think we discussed how Emacs
could use pin-entry, right? I think we concluded that this was
possible under a window system but not on a tty; is that correct?
Maybe we should pursue this and look for a complete solution along
these lines.
Is it possible to use pin-entry for applications other than GnuPG?
Could it be the basis of a complete solution?
The existing `read-passwd' API is not suitable for password.el, because
each password needs to be associated with an application-dependent
'key'. There is no parameter for that in `read-passwd'. Do you think
it is worth adding one?
I see no harm in adding one. Adding it at the end would avoid
incompatibility.
Alternatively, and what I consider the best idea (but it was some time
since this was discussed and I may very well have forgotten some
important point): let's make `read-passwd' a more lower-level primitive,
used by `password-read'.
All else being equal, I'd rather avoid adding another level of function
calling. It increases the total complexity, and I don't see any benefit.
What is the benefit here?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-06 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-15 19:26 Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/? Simon Josefsson
2004-10-15 19:37 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-15 23:27 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-16 2:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-10-16 13:52 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-17 13:45 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-18 13:58 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-24 12:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-25 13:13 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-25 14:13 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-27 10:47 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-27 19:08 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-29 4:32 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-29 21:25 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-11-01 20:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-11-01 20:31 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-11-02 18:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-11-02 21:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-02 15:02 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-05 10:16 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-11-06 8:38 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-11-06 14:01 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-07 7:55 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-08 0:46 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-08 17:40 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <54a15d860711081633k364caf30r3b75464be8a060fa@mail.gmail.com>
2007-11-09 13:40 ` Fwd: " Daiki Ueno
[not found] ` <E1IqbtM-0003DR-P8@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-11-10 4:53 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-10 7:07 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-10 20:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-11 0:04 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-11 19:33 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-12 8:54 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-13 5:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-14 3:45 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-14 5:44 ` Michael Albinus
2007-11-14 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-14 15:13 ` Michael Albinus
2007-11-14 17:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-15 3:08 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-15 3:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-16 4:28 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-15 0:23 ` Miles Bader
2007-11-15 3:08 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-11 5:22 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-10 19:53 ` Tom Tromey
2004-10-15 20:05 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-15 21:15 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-16 7:43 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-10-16 13:44 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-15 20:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-15 21:06 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-15 21:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-10-15 21:47 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-15 21:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-18 1:04 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-18 13:59 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-20 10:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-10-20 10:50 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-20 11:22 ` Ralf Angeli
2004-10-20 11:39 ` Ralf Angeli
2004-10-21 1:09 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-20 11:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-10-20 11:56 ` Karl Fogel
2004-10-20 12:38 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-20 13:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-20 12:34 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-21 1:28 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-21 5:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-10-21 5:49 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-21 10:05 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-23 7:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-10-25 1:02 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-25 10:14 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-25 17:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-10-25 22:41 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-27 17:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-10-28 2:21 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-26 7:28 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-10-27 17:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-10-16 13:52 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-18 17:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-10-18 21:36 ` Reiner Steib
2004-10-21 18:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-10-22 0:25 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-24 12:13 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-24 12:20 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-24 13:41 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-24 22:18 ` Stefan
2004-10-25 10:08 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-25 11:55 ` Stefan
2004-10-25 13:07 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-26 9:05 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-26 9:26 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-19 16:45 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-21 18:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-10-23 4:49 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-24 12:59 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-24 13:05 ` Move sha1.el and hex-util.el from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/ (was: Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?) Simon Josefsson
2004-10-25 13:13 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-25 14:23 ` Move sha1.el and hex-util.el from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/ Simon Josefsson
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