On 2024-09-06 16:21, 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.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.
I get this prompt:
HOST: imap.gmx.com USER: robin.lis...@gmx.es ENTER PASSWORD:
^G Help
^C Cancel Ret Accept
^G: Type your password for the host and login shown as part of the prompt.
Press ^C to cancel opening folder.
If I hit enter (not entering a password) it tries for a second or two, and the
prompt reappears:
Retrying - HOST: imap.gmx.com USER: robin.lis...@gmx.es ENTER PASSWORD:
^G Help
^C Cancel Ret Accept
I hit ^C now, I get back to the menu. The thing is, the password is stored for sure, it has been using it for weeks, in the same session. I think that if I exit Alpine, on new entry it does not remember the password. This morning, I was asked again after ^C, the prompt reappeared many times, maybe with a delay of a second or less. And the file has changed timestamp. cer@Telcontar:~> l .pinepw -rw------- 1 cer users 1659 Sep 6 23:41 .pinepw cer@Telcontar:~>
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.
Can you expand information on the process to do this? I'm not sure I would be
able to do it, anyway, but I don't understand the process to start.
What is important is why it apparently deletes the password entry, instead of
just trying again after a delay with the stored credentials, and asking the
user to choose retry with same credentials or type then again.
Would it help to change permissions to read only?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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