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Circe, a Client for IRC in Emacs
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Is it possible to connect with SASL by typing your username and password each time? #299

Closed computersarecool closed 7 years ago

computersarecool commented 7 years ago

I have to use SASL to connect to Freenode, but sometimes I want to connect via Circe on a computer where I would not like to store my private SASL password.

Is there a way that I can just type in the password during login instead of being forced to store it externally?

jorgenschaefer commented 7 years ago

You can set circe-pass to a function that returns the password. Does that help?

computersarecool commented 7 years ago

I am not sure I follow. In the documentation you give a helpful example of how to define a function called my-sasl-password which reads a file.

This is set in the sasl-password parameter of circe-network-options. Are you saying that I could instead set the sasl-password to a function and it would ask me to enter it each time?

wasamasa commented 7 years ago

@computersarecool That's the idea. How the function fetches the password is irrelevant (be it from a file, via user input, some credentials store, ...) as long as it returns the password so that Circe can use it. read-passwd is a ready-made one for this purpose.

jorgenschaefer commented 7 years ago

Sorry, got the variable names confused :-)

computersarecool commented 7 years ago

@jorgenschaefer Thanks for clearing up and @wasamasa Thanks so much!

I just have to fill in the field like so:

:sasl-password (lambda (x) (read-passwd "SASL password: "))

oatmealm commented 2 years ago

Hi there. I have this setup, but it doesn't seem to work. The only way I was passing simple strings. Authentication fails even though the pass' helper function seems to work. How can I check what's actuall passed through?

(after! circe
  (set-irc-server! "Libera Chat (EU)"
    '(:tls t
      :host "irc.eu.libera.chat"
      :port 6697
      :nick "nashdidan"
      :sasl-username ,(+pass-get-user "irc/libera.chat")
      :sasl-password (lambda (&rest _) (+pass-get-secret "irc/libera.chat"))
      :channels ("#emacs" "#guix" "#org-mode"))))
Thaodan commented 2 years ago

I would suggest to use auths-source-pass and then set auth-source-debug. Doing so will tell you everything is passed to circe.

See here if you want to use my setup: https://github.com/emacs-circe/circe/issues/82#issuecomment-1146557901

But if you want to to keep using that setup try to look in to the docs of pass-get-secret how to make it more verbose.

wasamasa commented 2 years ago

@oatmealm You need to use a backtick (instead of a quote) in combination with the comma, it will not work otherwise.

oatmealm commented 2 years ago

Thanks guys for the help. It worked with the backtick as suggested.