From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New package for NonGNU ELPA : totp-auth Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2024 22:55:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <47974953-df92-4d26-a3d6-271a7d6003b7@etla.org> <87zfwcbqy2.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38439"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: vivek@etla.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 10 04:56:05 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rYeTE-0009oD-9Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2024 04:56:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rYeT0-0000yo-Iy; Fri, 09 Feb 2024 22:55:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rYeSz-0000vh-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2024 22:55:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rYeSy-0006ll-Gy; Fri, 09 Feb 2024 22:55:48 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=gKVZTfkj3U+TgfTtdz0arD1gftZ299wWB38InRt/AUo=; b=q+17qkk0VuNu ZyNZoXnbfzJm0ShXa90ZK8SD/gUIFQoxP7j/ErFjyXTvkzznknIkoCD7jwx0IV41/lfrFHZWa6o1V +XYjtlHEIGx1QOqFcoiS7b3eBkxkZqfjy0UcMpP3HeLXSOhVmxrgvGXA8ASlXZ81oBEaO8nxHB8Xn TMENLBRUulblyaZ3cpndzmZJxlazqR6KVD/xRbY7gEV9GrEFwg/to2ZythOGapC/Hxh15oELsS9vD WzTot3hjJcZ3XiHhkp9wemPNSRkwhahKJfLeZF0OH3KLwgrboAmYpNEKpA9ETiiLBIjhsLRdjDuVY MdSMmiWVISnLSqnMjK81eQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rYeSx-0000F9-U6; Fri, 09 Feb 2024 22:55:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87zfwcbqy2.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Wed, 07 Feb 2024 09:48:21 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:316082 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I'm not Vivek, but I'm currently reviewing his code. The big advantage > over a shell command is, that it integrates with Emacs' password > infrastructure auth-source.el. > OTOH, I don't see which advantage we would gain if the implementation > is based on a shell command. The advantage would be to make this feature easy to invoke from context outside Emacs. I have a feeling that would be useful. I can't estimate the magnutude of the disadvantages, though. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)