Subject: bug#33146: .authinfo.gpg not automatically loaded when using (dired) on macOS

From: Christian Johansson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:57:36 +0100

Hi!

Alright, that worked. Would it be possible to make ange-ftp.el 
automatically aware of .authinfo files?
I think that would improve user experience a lot.

I can try adding support for that if it's possible

Regards
Christian

On 2018-10-25 10:14, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Christian Johansson <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Hi!
> Hi Christian,
>
>> ~/.authinfo.gpg seems to be loaded automatically for TRAMP sometimes
>> but not always, (dired) seems to be one command that doesn't load
>> .authinfo.gpg automatically.
> ~/.authinfo (and its different versions) are taken by the auth-sourc.el
> package. Tramp is aware of it, and uses its mechanisms.
>
>> 5. Paste: (dired "/ftp:[email-masked]@ftp.dlptest.com:/")
> As said before, "ftp" based methods are delegated via Tramp to
> ange-ftp.el. That package does not know auth-source.el, instead it has
> implemented its own parsing of ~/.netrc style files.
>
> Set ange-ftp-netrc-filename to "~/.authinfo.gpg", this should work.
>
>> Regards
>> Christian
> Best regards, Michael.