[Alpine-info] account password persistence

[scowles at ckhb.org]

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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