I'm the author of an elisp pkg [1] that talks via a REST API with a
server. For determining the credentials I use
`auth-source-user-and-password` in this elisp pkg.
Currently I store my credentials in an .authinfo file, but I
would like to read them from the keyring, since I already have
credentials for the service in the Login keyring.
I created the credentials using the python-keyring [2] pkg using the command
`keyring set hostname username`
The above command creates an entry in the Login keyring that has the following schema (output of `M-x secrets-show-secrets`)
`-[-] Password for ’thomas.hisch’ on ’hostname’
|- password: ********** [Show password]
|- application: Python keyring library
|- service: hostname
|- username: thomas.hisch
`- xdg:schema: org.freedesktop.Secret.Generic
The problem now is that `auth-source-user-and-password` doesn't find the credentials in the "Login" keyring, i.e.,
(let ((auth-sources '("secrets:Login")))
(auth-source-user-and-password "hostname"))
returns nil. The reason for this is that `auth-source-user-and-password` searches for an entry with a plist key :host and not with the key :service.
I know that I can manually pass the search spec to `auth-source-search`,
but I want to keep the auth code in my pkg as high-level as
possible. I also don't want to break anything for
users that use different auth-sources.
Is the implementation of auth-source.el, e.g. `auth-source-user-and-password`, supposed
to support reading of secrets stored in a keyring, which are not created by emacs?
Best regards,
Thomas