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

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:14:14 +0200

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.