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Re: [sup-talk] how to replace (al)pine's passfile functionality



Excerpts from Erik Quaeghebeur's message of Mon Apr 26 01:57:39 -0300 2010:
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> (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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