On Sat, 09 Jul 2016 10:17:50 +0200 Tassilo Horn <[email protected]> wrote:
TH> [email protected] (Adam Sjøgren) writes: >>> Ha, this is my idead: since `authinfo.gpg' is only for Gnus mail >>> authentication, why not put it under emacs directory? File under >>> home (~/.authinfo.gpg) should be used for the whole user >>> account. Is this reasonable? >> >> Do any other programs use ~/.authinfo.gpg? TH> I think so. TH> ,----[ (info "(auth)Overview") ] TH> | The auth-source library is simply a way for Emacs and Gnus, among TH> | ^^^^^ TH> | others, to answer the old burning question “What are my user name and TH> | ^^^^^^ TH> | password?” TH> `---- TH> And looking at my ~/.authinfo.gpg, I have at least two entries which are TH> not mail servers although I cannot remember why I've put them there. TH> One of them is the old Gnus git repository, so maybe Magit/VC are able TH> to read credentials there when pushing? Outside Emacs, I wrote a credentials plugin for Git that uses it: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/tree/contrib/credential/netrc Ted _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
