On 25Apr2016 19:45, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2016-04-25, David Champion <d...@bikeshed.us> wrote:
* On 25 Apr 2016, Grant Edwards wrote:
[regarding Google "app passwords"]
Do you need different, unique passwords for mutt, imap, msmtp,
offlineimap, and all other IMAP or SMTP clients on a particular
machine?
Are you required to use the same password for mutt on all machines?
No. You can create as many application-specific passwords as you need
at https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords. Each
can be tagged with an application name and a device name to help you
remember where you're using that password, but they're all equivalent.
Google doesn't pick up on what each one is specifically being used from,
although they may track whether passwords are being used at all.
Choose your own granularity.
David, thank you for this information; I've been wondering exactly the same
thing recently.
I'll probaby go with a single "app password" per account per physical
machine. Next I suppose I should figure out how to use gpg-agent so I
don't store them in plaintext. It would be nice if I could somehow
combine ssh-agent and gpg-agent so I don't have to enter a passphrase
twice...
A shell wrapper using expect might to the trick. Personally I'm going to enter
my passphrase twice.
Gpg-agent does work; I used to use it and intend to fix it up again (I forget
what troubles I had, they probably revolved around poor agent setup on my
part).
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
