On Fri, 6 Sep 2024, Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info wrote:
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.
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've noticed that if anything goes wrong with auth then alpine just goes
into a loop where it doesn't really cope with reconnecting. I need to
cancel and sometimes quit alpine and then start afresh for it to
properly attempt to reconnect with its stored credentials.
^C and using "y" to ask it to try again just rapidly repeats. This
makes it seem to have lost credentials, but it's clearly able to cope if
I reconnect.
I didn't bother reporting this as it's trivial to work around.
Best wishes,
- Damion
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