On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:45:02AM -0200, Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08 2003 at 05:36:54AM BRST, Robert Schiele > <robert.schiele@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 10:31:29PM -0800, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > The subject line pretty much says it. As noted in bugs 787, 1025 and > > > 1164, Mutt remembers incorrect PGP passwords up to the timeout value. It > > > would be really nice either to correct that, or be able to manually > > > purge the password. As it stands, if I mistype my password, I can't > > > use PGP without either quitting and restarting or waiting for the > > > timeout. > > > > > > Personally, I'd lobby for adding a force forget feature even if those > > > bugs are resolved, just for the security benefit. > > > > Try Ctrl+f. > > Though the problem is not as bad as Eric thought, it'd still > make sense for mutt to automatically forget the password once it proves to > be incorrect. Perhaps this behaviour could at least be bound to a variable. What's the utility in remembering a wrong passphrase? It might's well be standard behavior, IMHO. - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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