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If you're using an extension or emacs mode (e.g. rcirc) that has auto-login or similar config to store username and password, how do you hide password and/or username info?
I'd like to do something similar to how you put a link to something like a .smbpasswd file in /etc/fstab.
labyrinth
Posted 2012-05-29T05:05:35.927
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The standard Emacs way is to put in .authinfo.gpg
machine www.example.com login itsme password secret
and to encode it using gpg. I didn't test it with rcirc, but both gnus and tramp use it.
You can also put the same information into .authinfo, using only chmod to protect-it, but it won't be as secure.
Reading the source of Emacs auth-source.el show that it can do quite complex thing, in particular, you could use M-x customize-variable auth-sources to choose different way to specify login/mdp to Emacs (including gnome and kde stuff).
Rémi
Posted 2012-05-29T05:05:35.927
Reputation: 1 300
Out of curiosity: do these Emacs extensions require this file to be named
.authinfo, or do they accept.netrcas well? Several other Unix tools use~/.netrc, which has the exact same syntax. – user1686 – 2012-05-29T07:41:57.930@grawity: I do not know, but you can create a symbolic link nevertheless. – choroba – 2012-05-29T08:49:21.110
You can change the
auth-sourcesEmacs variable to point to the file you use. Its default value is("~/.authinfo" "~/.authinfo.gpg" "~/.netrc")meaning that .netrc will be looked at. – Rémi – 2012-05-29T15:47:35.337