[tin-users] What's .cancelsecret ?

[Chris Green]

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 11:55:59AM +0200, Urs Janßen wrote:
> 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.
> 
Thanks Urs.  I will send an RTFM to myself.

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Chris Green