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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2019-01-29 18:49:50 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2019-01-29 18:49:50 +0200
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Minor copyedits in last manual change
* doc/emacs/custom.texi (Authentication): Improve markup, indexing, and wording.
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+++ b/doc/emacs/custom.texi
@@ -2614,37 +2614,37 @@ Type @kbd{C-q}, followed by the key you want to bind, to insert @var{char}.
@node Authentication
@section Keeping Persistent Authentication Information
-@cindex ~/.authinfo file
-@cindex ~/.authinfo.gpg file
-@cindex ~/.netrc file
Some Emacs packages, which connect to other services, require
-authentication (@pxref{Passwords}), e.g., @ref{Top, Gnus,, gnus, The
+authentication (@pxref{Passwords}), e.g., see @ref{Top, Gnus,, gnus, The
Gnus Manual}, or @ref{Top, Tramp,, tramp, The Tramp Manual}. Because
it might be annoying to provide the same user name and password again
and again, Emacs offers to keep this information persistent via the
-auth-source library.
+@file{auth-source} library.
- Per default, this information is taken from the file
+@cindex @file{~/.authinfo} file
+@cindex @file{~/.authinfo.gpg} file
+@cindex ~/.netrc file
+ By default, the authentication information is taken from the file
@file{~/.authinfo} or @file{~/.authinfo.gpg} or @file{~/.netrc}.
-These files have a syntax similar to netrc files as known from the ftp
-program, like
+These files have a syntax similar to netrc files as known from the
+@command{ftp} program, like this:
@example
machine @var{mymachine} login @var{myloginname} password @var{mypassword} port @var{myport}
@end example
- Similarly, the auth-source library supports multiple storage
+ Similarly, the @file{auth-source} library supports multiple storage
backend, currently either the classic netrc backend, JSON files, the
Secret Service API, and pass, the standard unix password manager.
@vindex auth-sources
- All these alternatives are customized via the user option
-@code{auth-sources}, @ref{Help for users, Emacs auth-source,, auth,
-Emacs auth-source}.
+ All these alternatives can be customized via the user option
+@code{auth-sources}, see @ref{Help for users, Emacs auth-source,,
+auth, Emacs auth-source}.
@vindex auth-source-save-behavior
When a password is entered interactively, which is not found via the
configured backend, some of the backends offer to save it
-persistently. This can be changed by the customizing user option
+persistently. This can be changed by customizing the user option
@code{auth-source-save-behavior}.