From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
To: david@tunna.org
Cc: 18842@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18842: 24.4; gnus not handling passwords with double quotes in .authinfo
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:40:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4mk33m1jty.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ioj7avwq.fsf@laptop.roflmf>
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:54:29 +0100, David Spångberg wrote:
> After a recent update of emacs gnus fails to connect to a mail server
> with login information listed in one of the "~/.authinfo" or
> "~/.authinfo.gpg" files. The password in the file is quoted and contains
> an escaped double quote. Something like this:
> machine example.org login testuser password "test\"password" port 12345
IBM says[1]:
If the password phrase itself contains a quotation mark, use
the other style of quotation mark to enclose the password phrase.
I.e.: 'test"password'
The rule is enough to handle such a case, isn't it?
(auth-source.el supports it of course.)
[1] <http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.halu001/netftp.htm>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-26 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-26 11:54 bug#18842: 24.4; gnus not handling passwords with double quotes in .authinfo David Spångberg
2014-10-26 23:40 ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]
2014-10-27 10:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-27 19:28 ` David Spångberg
2014-11-02 20:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
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