Dhruva Krishnamurthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:43:12 +0100, Matthieu Moy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> said: > > mm> > http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/arch/public/tla/tla--authinfo/tla--authinfo--1.4/patch-1/tla--authinfo--1.4--patch-1.tar.gz > > mm> You should be able to get it with your web browser, this time. > > Thanks a ton, I downloaded it and am now compiling it. Can you give me a short > description to use it? I am new to authinfo file format.
machine <your proxy> login <your login> password <your password> machine <another machine> login <your login> password <your password> machine <a third machine> login <your login> password <your password> double quotes are allowed around machine, login and password, but are not mandatory. This is a convention used by several mailer/newsreaders. I couldn't find a real spec for that. Don't forget the chmod 600 ~/.authinfo, and be carefull with backup files, off course. Actually, there is still some work to make something clean : 1) write a clean spec of the file format 2) review the code and probably change things to adapt to tla's coding style. 3) move the code away from pfs-dav.c, make an independant authinfo.c/authinfo.h (I think a pure ANSI C version without dependancy + BSD-like license would be nice because reuseable outside tla). 4) Use this mechanism in other pfs backends. Storing the passwords in the archive location is anyway a bad idea. Who wants tla to display the passwords in clear text when one types "tla archive"?? There was some discussions about sharing the ~/.arch-params/ with arch itself. Err, I won't do that if I have clear text passwords in this directory ... 5) Actually, it would even be better to have a generic password storing mechanism that could use ~/.authinfo, kwallet, or whatever as a backend. I'm not willing to do all that if the code has no chance to be merged into the main branch. Since my posts about this have been mainly ignored by developpers, I guess this is the case. (But I'd be happy to change my mind) -- Matthieu _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
