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bug#30246: 25.2.50; auth-source does not support creation or deletion wi
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#30246: 25.2.50; auth-source does not support creation or deletion with secrets provider |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:11:20 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Allen Li <vianchielfaura@gmail.com> writes:
Hi Allen,
> auth-source does not support saving secrets with the Secrets API
> backend. This reduces the usefulness of auth-source significantly
> since keychains that provide secure secret storage using the API are
> standard on many GNU/Linux distributions (e.g., gnome-keyring on
> Ubuntu).
This was reported already some years ago on the emacs-help ML, see
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2013-06/msg00361.html>. IIRC,
it wasn't trivial to implement, that's why it has lingered around on my
TODO since then.
See also `auth-source-secrets-create' in auth-source.el, which misses
its implementation. And you've got the error message "The Secrets API
auth-source backend doesn't support creation yet".
Since I am working on secrets.el these days anyway due to your other
report bug#29575, chances are good that I'll fix this, finally.
Best regards, Michael.