[Alpine-info] Seeking someone who..?

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Hello Milt,

That's not the password that some users are complaining about.

When alpine is first run on a computer it wants a Master Password to run.

It won't acce[t a blank password, and it won't accept a short password
either, so in my irritation I put in "alphabet" and it asked for me to
confirm alphabet so I did.
Now every time i run alpine I have to type that password.

I have alpine compiled with passfile so the first time I opened alpine it
asked if I wanted to store my email password to disk and I answered yes.

Now when I want to check my mail I type alpine, then I type alphabet and
alpine opens up.

I still think it would be wonderful to be able to opt out of the master
password addition with a compile-time option --no-masterpassword or
something like that.

I can see how having such a master password is very valuable to some, but
there are many people who just need a simple text only email client and
alpine works very well with screen readers, the blind console users just
love it, but most don't like the extra step of putting in the master
password.  They just want to get to their mail.

Regards,
David

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 3:12 PM Milt Epstein <mepstein at illinois.edu> wrote:


> On Thu, 30 Nov 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote:

>

> > On 2023-11-29 21:12, Karen Lewellen wrote:

> > > Hi Carlos,

> > > As i have no intention of turning this off either, I have a quick

> question?

> > > Where does alpine store this password, when it asks to save the

> password for

> > > future use?

> >

> > Encrypted, in ".pinepw", I think.

> [ ... ]

>

> I believe this is a compile-time opton -- using --with_passfile -- and

> also comes with a default, depending on what your platform is (mine is

> ".pine-passfile").  It might also be possible to have it not set at

> all (or have it be empty?).  And there might be a command-line option

> to tell you what it is set to, I'm not sure.

>

> Milt Epstein

> mepstein at illinois.edu

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