From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: auth-source multiple accounts Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:21:19 +0100 Organization: Janet Usenet Reading Service. Message-ID: References: <370a1897-25aa-418f-9631-1570dfa99de3@z7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <87633kaess.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8d7c78ee-6ba8-448a-8f86-3d585e1af77f@u32g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> <87vd8z2myy.fsf@lifelogs.com> <01ea3506-d715-491d-b360-3abf34e98013@i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <87r5iq1hjk.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87630211kx.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291850267 6185 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 23:17:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:17:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 00:17:38 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQTGU-00076j-GS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:17:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47777 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQTGT-0006ai-H3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:17:37 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.news.heanet.ie!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!feed2.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!times.reader.netnews.ja.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acws-0068.cs.bham.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: north.jnrs.ja.net 1280179280 5245 147.188.194.56 (26 Jul 2010 21:21:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@north.jnrs.ja.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:21:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <87630211kx.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180087 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76202 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov wrote: > Maybe it's better to use auth-source-pick parameters, something like > (account "my-account-1") coupled with "account my-account-1" in the > netrc file. In Gnus we can do it since each server entry has its own > name which can be separate from the actual server address. Will that > work in VM, giving a logical name to each account? See auth-source-pick > and auth-source-user-or-password for the details; the query data format > is pretty simple thanks to Michael Albinus' help recently. I don't follow everything you say. We do have logical account names in VM. Are you saying that we could use them in the netrc file as the "machine", instead of the actual host name? We could. But I suppose the users will wonder why these things are supposed to be called "machines". But I am not sure how auth-source-pick can help with this problem. It seems like a way to pick a source file. Cheers, Uday