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bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg
From: |
Roland Winkler |
Subject: |
bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:47:53 -0600 |
On Thu Jan 26 2012 Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> I don't recall exactly either. But here's how we can proceed. We have
> several options:
>
> 1) go back to authinfo.gpg as the first choice
>
> 2) use unencrypted authinfo with encrypted password tokens, which looks like
> this:
>
> machine supertest password
> gpg:jA0EAwMC2tUEaZgM7A5gyWM/owySdCOS/cjoFCuf8LI1d1kYX7z6cjsNkakM04u1geh/iesqyH3XQFI+SEVLb/oEC/EoQ0LIgRRoBiLyu9XZWN1ytY7MQxpPZniFz13oGV4/Dwl8yrP3Hba5LfQpHy2FZRM=
>
> 3) work on the libnettle support (automatic if we use GnuTLS) so the
> external GPG executable is not needed to generate encrypted password
> tokens or encrypted authinfo files
>
> 4) use Daiki Ueno's plist storage format (already in auth-source but not
> well tested AFAIK)
>
> 5) ask the user if he has no authinfo file what he wants to do, and
> choose sensible defaults from the above depending on whether EPA/EPG and
> GPG; or libnettle are available. If we do that, `auth-sources' will be
> set to 'ask by default.
For me, being a user who does not know too much about the subtleties
of "smart solutions" for this problem, it would already be helpful
if the relevant docstrings / info pages / a *Warnings* buffer
contained a warning like
It is highly recommended to store the file .authinfo as an
encrypted file as .authinfo.gpg, though in some cases such a
solution can be inconvenient or otherwise problematic.
On the other hand, describe-variable currently gives for
auth-sources
auth-sources is a variable defined in `auth-source.el'.
Its value is ("~/.authinfo" "~/.authinfo.gpg" "~/.netrc")
Documentation:
List of authentication sources.
The default will get login and password information from
"~/.authinfo.gpg", which you should set up with the EPA/EPG
packages to be encrypted. If that file doesn't exist, it will
try the unencrypted version "~/.authinfo" and the famous
"~/.netrc" file.
See the auth.info manual for details.
What general scheme of precedence is implemented here if
auth-sources is a list and the "default value" in this list is not
the first or last one, but the second? Or is this just a bug in the
docstring?
For this problem, I cannot find helpful comments in the auth.info
manual either. I suggest that the docstring of auth-sources should
provide a hyperlink to the relevant section of the auth.info manual.
Roland
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- bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/27
- bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, Daiki Ueno, 2012/01/29
- bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2012/01/30
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- bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/31
- bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, Michael Albinus, 2012/01/31
- bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg,
Roland Winkler <=
- bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2012/01/28
- bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, Roland Winkler, 2012/01/28
- bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2012/01/30
- bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, Roland Winkler, 2012/01/30