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24.4; gnus not handling passwords with double quotes in .authinfo

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From: David Spångberg <david <at> tunna.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 18842 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>
Subject: bug#18842: 24.4; gnus not handling passwords with double quotes in .authinfo
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:28:32 +0100

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de> writes:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:54:29 +0100, David Spångberg wrote:
>>> After a recent update of emacs gnus fails to connect to a mail server
>>> with login information listed in one of the "~/.authinfo" or
>>> "~/.authinfo.gpg" files. The password in the file is quoted and contains
>>> an escaped double quote. Something like this:
>>
>>>   machine example.org login testuser password "test\"password" port 12345
>>
>> IBM says[1]:
>> If the password phrase itself contains a quotation mark, use
>> the other style of quotation mark to enclose the password phrase.
>>
>> I.e.: 'test"password'
>>
>> The rule is enough to handle such a case, isn't it?

This solves the problem for me at least.

> Until you start using both. :-)

IBM further bans using both forms at the same time so I guess it's a
problem with the specification rather than the implementation in
"auth-source.el".

Thanks for the help :)


Best regards,

David

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