jorge.a.alf...@gmail.com (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes: > Michael Albinus <michael.albi...@gmx.de> writes:
Hi Jorge, >> A useful feature would be an auth-source backend, See (info "(auth)") >> By this, other packages (like Gnus or Tramp) would profit from the >> password manager directly. > > Thanks Michael. I will look more into auth. What is your idea? To be > able to use something like auth-source-search, to pass features of the > org-passwords database as secrets? yes. > I only use auth for gnus and jabber, so my .authinfo.gpg is only five > lines. What setup could benefit on that? Can auth send secrets to other > applications, like a web browser? If another Emacs package uses auth-source-search, it would benefit automatically from your backend. Several packages uses it already, like Tramp, gnus, url, erc, ldap. > Best, > > Jorge. Bet regards, Michael.