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Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail
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Karl Fogel |
Subject: |
Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:26:13 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"T. V. Raman" <address@hidden> writes:
>Also, if you ask smtpmail to save the security settings, it
>creates a world-readable .authinfo with the password stored in
>the clear --- looks like a bad idea on all counts.
I've been thinking that lately too.
First, the fact that .authinfo is created world-readable just seems like
a clear bug. Also easy to fix (sorry, I don't have patch, but I could
come up with one if we all agree this is a straight bug).
Second: I think it was a mistake that we fully deprecated
`smtpmail-auth-credentials' in favor of ~/.authinfo, instead of, say,
just making the latter override the former when the latter is present.
It's good to have an entirely off-disk option for passing credentials;
maybe most users won't use it, but some will, and it's good in principle
to offer it. (For example, search for that variable in [1] to see how I
was using it.)
I'd like to know how people feel about the above assertions, before I
start patching anything, though.
-Karl
[1] http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/kfogel/trunk/.emacs
- more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail, T. V. Raman, 2011/08/13
- Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail,
Karl Fogel <=
- Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail, Leo, 2011/08/13
- Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail, Karl Fogel, 2011/08/14
- Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail, Vijay Lakshminarayanan, 2011/08/14
- Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail, Leo, 2011/08/14
- Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail, Vijay Lakshminarayanan, 2011/08/14
- Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail, Leo, 2011/08/15
- Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail, Vijay Lakshminarayanan, 2011/08/15
- Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail, Tim Cross, 2011/08/15
- Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail, Vijay Lakshminarayanan, 2011/08/15
- Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail, Tim Cross, 2011/08/16