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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: An org password manager
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:39:21 +0200
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jorge.a.alfaro@gmail.com (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes:

> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

Hi Jorge,

>> A useful feature would be an auth-source backend, See (info "(auth)")
>> By this, other packages (like Gnus or Tramp) would profit from the
>> password manager directly.
>
> Thanks Michael. I will look more into auth. What is your idea? To be
> able to use something like auth-source-search, to pass features of the
> org-passwords database as secrets? 

yes.

> I only use auth for gnus and jabber, so my .authinfo.gpg is only five
> lines. What setup could benefit on that? Can auth send secrets to other
> applications, like a web browser?

If another Emacs package uses auth-source-search, it would benefit
automatically from your backend. Several packages uses it already, like
Tramp, gnus, url, erc, ldap.

> Best,
>
> Jorge.

Bet regards, Michael.