Re: Credentials and the Secrets API...

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 27, 2011, 17:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20111027174807.GD1967@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAEBDL5Udooim_3Za76Q1Rt_aGXtsSv76nxRegGWRBE=WJQzfZA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:05:03PM -0400, John Szakmeister wrote:

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> Just wanted to keep folks in the loop.  It turns out that the Secrets
> API is still to young.  I asked about the format to store credentials
> in (as far as attributes), and got a response from a KDE developer
> that says it's still to young on their front.  They hope to have
> support in the next release of KDE.  But there's still the issue of
> what attributes to use.

Thanks for looking into this. That explains why I had such trouble finding good documentation on it.

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> With that information, I went ahead and created a
> gnome-credential-keyring that uses Gnome's Keyring facility.  I still
> need to do a few more things (mainly run it against Jeff's tests), but
> it's generally working.  Just wanted to keep folks in the loop.
> Hopefully, I can get patches out this weekend.

Great, I'm looking forward to reading it.

> Jeff: it would be really excellent to break out the various pieces.  I
> think it would also be better to split the asking for passwords from
> the storing of passwords.

That's my current plan. I just need to stop dragging my feet on re-rolling the series.

-Peff