Re: Modifying Emacs to use the Mac OS X Keychain Services

[Dave Abrahams]

on Mon Aug 20 2012, Dave Abrahams <dave-AT-boostpro.com> wrote:

> [sorry about the last one; I misfired]
>
> on Sun Jul 29 2012, Ted Zlatanov <tzz-AT-lifelogs.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:20:17 -0400 Dave Abrahams <address@hidden> wrote: 
>>
>>
>> #+begin_src lisp
>> (auth-source-backend-parse 'macos-keychain-internet)
>> (auth-source-backend-parse 'macos-keychain-generic)
>> (auth-source-backend-parse "macos-keychain-internet:/path/here.keychain")
>> (auth-source-backend-parse "macos-keychain-generic:/path/here.keychain")
>> (auth-source-backend-parse '(:source (:macos-keychain-internet default)))
>> (auth-source-backend-parse '(:source (:macos-keychain-generic 
>> "/path/here.keychain")))
>> #+end_src
>
> Hi Ted,
>
> I finally got around to trying this.
> Despite the fact that the above work, I'm seeing this message:
>
> auth-source-backend-parse: invalid backend spec: (quote 
> macos-keychain-generic)
> auth-source-backend-parse: invalid backend spec: (quote 
> macos-keychain-internet)
>
> I think maybe the customization interface has a couple extra single
> quotes in it, because it left my auth-sources as
>
> #+begin_src lisp
> ((quote macos-keychain-generic) (quote macos-keychain-internet) "~/.authinfo" 
> "~/.authinfo.gpg" "~/.netrc")
> #+end_src

And once I fix that, I'm seeing:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Opening connection to imap.gmail.com via tls...
Unable to open server nnimap+GMail due to: Wrong type argument: stringp, (993 
"imaps" "imap" "993" "143")
Opening nnimap server on GMail...failed: 
nnimap read 0k from localhost
(No changes need to be saved)
Warning: Opening nnimap server on GMail...failed: ; Unable to open server 
nnimap+GMail due to: Wrong type argument: stringp, (993 "imaps" "imap" "993" 
"143")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

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