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From: Erik Quaeghebeur <sup@equaeghe.nospammail.net>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] how to replace (al)pine's passfile functionality
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:47:10 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1004262343180.2052@flfbcjrt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1272261905-sup-876@kafka>

> Excerpts from Erik Quaeghebeur's message of Mon Apr 26 01:57:39 -0300 2010:
> >
> > (Al)pine has a passfile functionality: a (weakly) encrypted file 
> > contains the passwords necessary for imap, nntp, and smpt connections. 
> > For sup (0.11 on ruby 1.8), I use offlineimap and msmpt, both of which 
> > need passwords either stored in plaintext in their config files or in 
> > the netrc file. Is there any way to use some kind of encrypted netrc 
> > (something in the vein of kde's wallet), which is decrypted/made 
> > accessible on login or with a one-time password dialog?

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Mariano Mara wrote:
>
> I use gnome-keyring. I googled a bit and found the post that helped me 
> when I was setting it up: 
> http://www.clasohm.com/blog/one-entry?entry_id=90957 (if I remember 
> correctly). msmtp is even easier since it has an explicit option for 
> adding it to the gnome-keyring.

Thank you for this information, it is just what I was looking for.

> Since you're mentioning kde wallet I kinda feel this information won't
> be useful to you but nevertheless...

On the contrary: I have gnome-keyring installed, as I need it for the 
gnome-networkmanager applet (the KDE one is not good enough yet). On top 
of that, I hope that the effort to unify both gnome-keyring and kde-wallet 
will allow me to not keep both once kde's netwrkmanager applet is up to 
par: <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec>.

However, I am hampered by the fact that in ubuntu 9.10, msmtp-gnome 
depends on gnome-keyring-manager, a package that does not exist in 9.10!

Anyhow, I'll get there, currently with baby steps.


Best,

Erik
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-27  3:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-26  4:57 Erik Quaeghebeur
2010-04-26  6:10 ` Mariano Mara
2010-04-27  3:47   ` Erik Quaeghebeur [this message]
2010-04-26  7:23 ` Nicolas Pouillard

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