[Alpine-info] Sometimes, Alpine forgets the password.

[Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2024, Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info wrote:


> Sometimes, Alpine forgets the password for one of the accounts, that 

> should have been saved weeks or months ago. Like this morning, computer 

> resumes from hibernation and it asks for the password of one account. 

> Ctrl-C, asks again and again, maybe a dozen times.


Dear Carlos,

   for some reason authentication failed once. I cannot say why, it might 
have been an error in Alpine, as well as it might have been an error at 
the server side. This failure Alpine forget the password and it asks you 
for it again. What is surprising me is that ^C does nothing. Can you 
confirm this with me? That should not be the case. I realize that the 
authentication flow in Alpine is not right, but this makes no sense 
either.

If your Alpine has debug symbols you can start another copy of Alpine 
under gdb and attach to the other version of Alpine. This makes you gain 
control on the running version and step through the process to see where 
it is failing.

I hope this helps.

-- 
Eduardo