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bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken
From: |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken |
Date: |
Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:10:35 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> that I'm tempted to go back to just storing this data in the plain-text
>> ~/.authinfo file until all this has been worked out.
>
> No!!!! Or only after prompting the user five times for
> (different) confirmation.
If you look at other widely used software packages, like Firefox, they
default to just storing the passwords in an (obfuscated) non-encrypted
file. I don't think that's such a bad default.
>> When writing the ~/.authinfo.gpg file, the user should be queried one
>> thing: "Password for ~/.authinfo.gpg: ****". And that's it, in my
>> extremely humble opinion.
>
> I partly agree, though some users won't have a key-pair setup, others
> will have several, so the right thing to do may be either to use
> symmetric encryption, or to guess which key-pair to use, and since it's
> a guess there needs to be a way for the user to override the guess.
Again, if you look at what the user experience is with, say, Firefox --
if you have password encryption turned on, then Firefox will prompt you
for the password to unlock your credential storage. This is intuitive
and works well.
If you want a more complicated credential storage setup, then that
should be a user option, not a default. At present, the ~/.authinfo.gpg
credential storage is not something you can present to a normal user and
expect them to understand at all.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
- bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/12/05
- bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken, Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/09
- bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <=
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- Re: bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/12/10
- bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken, Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/10
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- Re: bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/12/12
- Re: bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/12/13
- Re: bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/12/13
- bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken, Daiki Ueno, 2010/12/13
- bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken, Daiki Ueno, 2010/12/14
- Message not available
- Re: bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/12/15
- bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken, Daiki Ueno, 2010/12/15
- bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken, Daiki Ueno, 2010/12/15