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Jeff Miller writes:
>
>I've commented out the (require efs) business in sample.emacs for the time
>being for performance reasons.
>
>Now I get a warning msg like
>
> (1) (security/warning) Can't determine how to read passwords, winging it.
>
>I haven't even tried to access anything off my pc.  Why should it care
>about determining passwds if I haven't used a filename of the form
>/jmiller@machine:something"?

  I believe that is an Emacs-W3 warning you are seeing.  Did this pop up
when you visited a web page for the first time that session?  Emacs-W3
needs to know how to read passwords for its HTTP support, and this is
determined at run-time.

-Bill P.

