From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] lisp/server.el: Introduction of server-auth-key variable Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:09:17 -0300 Message-ID: References: <835b9d42b15c18e5adf7381138f347061fbc17e8.1298381336.git.mina86@mina86.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304096972 4151 80.91.229.12 (29 Apr 2011 17:09:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:09:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Michal Nazarewicz" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 29 19:09:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrC1-00071h-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:09:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44988 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrC0-0007yd-F1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34309) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrBy-0007yN-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:09:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrBx-00074v-D0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:09:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:53841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrBx-00074r-AR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:09:21 -0400 Original-Received: from 121-249-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.249.121]:25156 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrBw-0005Tp-5S; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:09:20 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A210B660D4; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:09:17 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: (Michal Nazarewicz's message of "Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:35:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138905 Archived-At: > Yes, but you'd have to send the key every time you connect to the remote > host and every time you restart emacs. I used something like "scp : .; emacsclient" last time I needed such a thing, which is a bit slowish, indeed. >> IIUC this only makes sense if you want to use a shared key that you keep >> for a "long" time (since the intention is to reduce the frequency of >> key-distribution). > Yep, that's my use-case. I guess it could make sense. I'd rather like to see such a feature provided some other way (e.g. share the key via ssh-agent, or rely on GNUtls for authentication), but I guess in the mean time it might be OK, provided the docstring strongly encourages users not to use it and to expect it to disappear in the future. Stefan