[Alpine-info] newsserver password

[Carlos E. R.]

On 2023-05-03 21:52, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:

> On Tue, 2 May 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote:

>> On 2023-05-02 15:42, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:

> 

>>> I tried touch .pine-passfile and now it offers to save the pwd on disk,

>>> but requires the generation of a master password, and asks all the times

>>> Enter password of key <MasterPassword> to unlock password file

> 

>> I suppose it is the same master password for email as for news. I just

>> enter that master password, for email, just once.

> 

> I never used a master password. Neither in alpine nor in my browser 

> (were I have lots of password stored)


Well, but the way that Alpine is designed to not ask for the email or 
news password, is to have a Master password. That's the way it works. 
You enter the Master password once, when you start Alpine.

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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