[Alpine-info] Seeking someone who..?

[damion.yates at gmail.com]

I mentioned using `openssl` earlier.  The URLs from Carlos earlier in 
the thread, explain that you can use openssl to blank that password and 
then you don't have to type anything.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1349401/how-to-remove-the-master-password-for-the-alpine-pine-e-mail-client

https://comp.mail.pine.narkive.com/UcMK4NZG/suppress-master-password-prompt

Looking at my shell history I can see I did this in June 2021 and never 
looked back.

It's roughly:

```
cd ~/.alpine-smine/.pwd mv MasterPassword.key
MasterPassword.key.orig openssl rsa -in MasterPassword.key.orig -out
MasterPassword.key
```

But review the URLs and maybe read `man openssl` as I might have missed 
something.  I /think/ but I'm not certain, that clearing the files in 
.pwd/ will let you start alpine and get to pick another master password, 
equally deleting the passfile.  But as I don't really want to 
repeat/replicate this right now (I'm still at work and it's gone 
midnight here in London), you're on your own.

  Best wishes,

  - Damion

On Thu, 30 Nov 2023, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:


> You cannot use a single letter or blank master password with alpine, I 

> tried many and finally got frustrated at a small password and entered 

> "alphabet" and it was accepted.

> 

> That's eight letters, I suspect that alpine will allow six letters.

> 

> This is for every user, one more password to enter.  It only stops 

> someone from sitting at someone else's computer and typing in "alpine" 

> and reading their mail because in addition to the person's email 

> password now the program is password protected.

> 

> I will eventually forget my master password or I will go through the 

> complicated for me process of removing the master password from this 

> computer. I think certain folders have to be deleted under 

> configuration.