13.4 Manage Passwords

If you input passwords to connect servers, they are stored in the variable elmo-passwd-alist per connection. You should be careful that others might read your passwords if they can touch your Emacs, since encoded plain passwords are there.

If you invoke M-x elmo-passwd-alist-save while you have stored passwords, then they are saved on the file, and it will save you to input passwords. In this case, the risk that someone reads your keystroke might decrease, but please not that plain passwords are stored on a file. You should treat them very carefully. To remove saved passwords on file, invoke M-x elmo-passwd-alist-clear and then M-x elmo-passwd-alist-save.

elmo-passwd-alist-file-name

The initial setting is `passwd'. This is the name of the file in which passwords are saved. elmo-passwd-alist-save saves current passwords to the file.

elmo-passwd-life-time

The initial setting is nil. If the value is some number, timer is set to remove password entry after elmo-passwd-life-time seconds since you input the password. nil means never to remove passwords.