GNU bug report logs - #22188
24.5; auth-source-search ignores netrc entries with port set

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alexey Veretennikov <alexey.veretennikov <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.5

Done: Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22188: 24.5;
 auth-source-search ignores netrc entries with port set
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 16:02:00 -0500

On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 16:25:31 +0100 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote: 

LI> Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com> writes:
>> This will match any authentication port.  Simple, right?  But what if
>> there’s a SMTP server on port 433 of that machine that needs a different
>> password from the IMAP server?
>> 
>> machine YOURMACHINE login YOU password SMTPPASSWORD port 433
>> machine YOURMACHINE login YOU password GENERALPASSWORD
>> 
>> I hope that helps. Closing this as done, but please let me know if the
>> auth-source manual or docstrings need improvement.

LI> The return values are hopefully sorted by specificity, right?  So the
LI> first entry will be 433 if you specify :port "443" in the auth-source
LI> call?  (And :max 1 will just return that entry...)

They are in the order they're found, yes.

Ted
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