On Tue, 2 May 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-05-02 15:42, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
I tried touch .pine-passfile and now it offers to save the pwd on disk, but requires the generation of a master password, and asks all the times Enter password of key <MasterPassword> to unlock password file
I suppose it is the same master password for email as for news. I just enter that master password, for email, just once.
I never used a master password. Neither in alpine nor in my browser (were I have lots of password stored)
I have two files: rw------- 1 cer users 1814 Apr 12 11:49 .pinepw -rw------- 1 cer users 55941 Apr 11 08:44 .pinerc
Of course I have .pinerc, the other is .pine-passfile (must be touched, and once created empty gets populated
There is also a directory, but I can't find it or its name. Ah, ".alpine-smime/"
Yes, there is, it usually contains three subdir ca private public. If I accept storing password a new subdir .pw with two certificate files is created. Even if I keep S/Mime disabled.
Since I read news from a dedicated (local, captive) account (not to leak my e-mail address), I have to type either: one pwd to enter the account, and one pwd to enter the news collection; or one pwd to enter the account, and one master pwd to access the stored passwords.
So it is simpler NOT to use any stored password. The script which runs the local account echoes the local account password, so I can cut-and-paste it. And I've efined the newsserver account pwd to be the same plus two extra characters (length limit). so I type just those two chars.
That's so far my sort-of acceptable solution. _______________________________________________ Alpine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info
