[Alpine-info] account password persistence

[scowles at ckhb.org]

sorry for the noise.

my current shell session time zone (TZ) differed from the system timezone. as 
soon as i corrected TZ in the shell config files, started a new shell session, 
and then started a new instance of alpine, i was prompted for the passfile 
master password and all is now well.  account credentials on this new host are 
now persistent.

if the timezone correction is a false correlation with the behaviour change, 
then what caused the behaviour change?

could this problem be a possible bug, or perhaps a case of a missing and helpful 
error message?

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On Sat, 10 Dec 2022, scowles at ckhb.org wrote:


> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 15:23:40

> From: scowles at ckhb.org

> To: alpine-info at u.washington.edu

> Subject: [Alpine-info] account password persistence

> 

>

> i build alpine from source and specify absolute path for the passfile.

> when quitting the alpine instance, i am not prompted for a master password to

> keep any account credentials persistent.

>

> this persistence is functional on other hosts in my network; why not this 

> host?

>

> build sequence is identical; source is identical; ~/.pinerc is identical.

> something is clearly different, but i have not been able to find the 

> difference.

> would anyone have knowledge about what i need to fix?

>

> thanks.

>

> platform:  ubuntu 22.04.1, current patches as of 2022-12-10 15:16:15 PST

> alpine source:  current as of 2022-12-10 15:16:15 PST

>

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