[Alpine-info] Preserve passwords setting?

[Baron Fujimoto]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Matt Ackeret wrote:


: On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Baron Fujimoto wrote:

: > I've installed Alpine using MacPorts on two different machines.  On one,

: > I answered [n] when prompted to preserve the password used to connect to

: > IMAP/SMTP servers.

: >

: >   Preserve password for next login? [y]:

: >

: > I can't find the setting or option that will reset or change this to [y]

: > though.  Can somone point it out to me?  Where are the passwords saved?

: > Are they encrypted?

: 

: I'm not positive, but I think this is referring to using the keychain on

: Mac OS X.  I'm not positive, since maybe this is a compile time option (for

: security reasons).  (IIRC, there's also an INSECURE "passfile" option people

: dissuade people from using whenever it's mentioned.)

: 

: If it *IS* the keychain saving I'm referring to, then it's saved in the same

: keychain database that all Mac OS X keychain items are saved in.  You can

: use /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app to look at what's in your

: keychain. If the keychain is locked, then it's as secure as the keychain is.

: 

: Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to your main question.. Though maybe

: they store an item in the keychain specifically with a value indicating don't

: save passwords.  (I see a many years old "UWash_Alpine_Prompt_For_Password"

: item, with the "password" of 1.)

: 

: So if you open Keychain Access, and search for 'alpine', you may be able

: to figure this out.


Ah, that was it.  The entry is indeed called "UWash_Alpine_Prompt_For_Password"
and if you delete it, you will be prompted to preserve the password next time
around.  Mahalo!