Re: Potential bug/inconsistency in auth-source netrc vs plstore backends

[Soham Gumaste]

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On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 2:34 PM Soham Gumaste <sohamg2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to patch the `oauth2.el` elpa library to better integrate
> with the native auth-sources system so that functions like nnimap and
> smtpmail can use it transparently.
>
> I noticed the following inconsistency while playing with this: As
> shown by [1], the netrc backend does not require :host, :user or :port
> as required keys in matched results, however, the plstore backend
> requires :host, :login: :port and :secret.
>
> This is causing an issue for me as I would like to patch the oauth2.el
> library to store the access token as a secret, but without any port
> associated with it. The oauth2.el library already uses plstore and it
> is the more convenient backend to use.
>
> Please let me know if this is indeed a bug and the possible direction
> for a bugfix patch if that is the case.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> [1]: 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/auth-source.el#n1274
> [2]: 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/auth-source.el#n2112
> --
> Soham Gumaste
> sohamg2@gmail.com



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