[tin-users] What's .cancelsecret ?

[Urs Janßen]

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 10:09:31AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> I have just moved my local leafnode server and my tin installation to
> a new system (later version of xubuntu).
> 
> I'm getting the followiing message when I post messages:-
> 
>     ERR: Can't open /home/chris/.cancelsecret
> 
> I see on the old system there's just an empty file ~/.cancelsecret,
> obviously I can put the same on the new system but it would be nice to
> know what it's for. :-)

tin(5)
|   ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.cancelsecret
|
|         secret to be used for cancel-locks if tin(1) is built  with  sup‐
|         port  for  it. An empty secret file disables the cancel-lock cre‐
|         ation in that case. This file should  be  readable  only  by  the
|         user.