`auth-source-search` cannot deal with multiple consecutive searches

Question

I am a heavy user of https://github.com/yuya373/emacs-slack, and I noticed a weird behavior of auth-source-search: If I call this function multiple times, querying the second info always returns nil.

This is my slack configuration:

(let ((auth1 (car (auth-source-search :host "team1.slack.com")))
      (auth2 (car (auth-source-search :host "team2.slack.com"))))
  (slack-register-team
   :name "Team 1"
   :user "some_email1@example1.com"
   :token (funcall (plist-get auth1 :secret)))
  (slack-register-team
   :name "Team 2"
   :user "some_email2@example2.com"
   :token (funcall (plist-get auth2 :secret)))

And the second call to auth-source-search fails, making auth2 nil. So, Emacs cannot evaluate the expression (funcall (plist-get auth2 :secret)) since (plist-get auth2 :secret) is nil.

I am certain that auth-source-search is somehow broken, and have found a prior question to this: `auth-source-search` returns nil for valid queries . A comment to this question suggested to add :port keyword argument to auth-source-search, but in this case I cannot because the Slack auth info does not contain any port fields.

How can I solve this issue?

Edit: My .authinfo looks roughly like this:

host team1.slack.com user some_email1@example1.com password ...
machine imap.gmail.com login ... port ... password ...
machine smtp.gmail.com login ... port ... password ...
host team2.slack.com user some_email2@example2.com password ...

That is, the entry of team1.slack.com comes before that of team2.slack.com.

My Emacs is of version 27.1, configured with Spacemacs at the develop branch's latest commit.

You'll have to show us the contents of your .authinfo in order to determine if this is a bug or not (and tell us which version of Emacs you're using) — rpluim, Jan 20 '21 at 08:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 26 '21 at 05:12

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Yay, solved it: use machine instead of host for both authinfo.gpg and the keyword argument.

answered Jan 26 '21 at 05:12

Namudon'tdie

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Can you tell us which bit of the auth-source manual led you to using `host` in your `authinfo.gpg` so we can fix it? – rpluim Jan 27 '21 at 14:06
@rpluim The confusion was on my part. Because the keyword argument was `:host`, I incorrectly thought that the matching line of the `authinfo` should also be led by `host`, not `machine`. – Namudon'tdie Jan 28 '21 at 07:19

`auth-source-search` cannot deal with multiple consecutive searches

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