From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Credentials and the Secrets API... Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:48:07 -0700 Message-ID: <20111027174807.GD1967@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: John Szakmeister X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 27 19:48:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJU3t-0006FO-RU for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:48:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754215Ab1J0RsM (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:48:12 -0400 Received: from 99-108-226-0.lightspeed.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([99.108.226.0]:56735 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753853Ab1J0RsK (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:48:10 -0400 Received: (qmail 3852 invoked by uid 107); 27 Oct 2011 17:53:57 -0000 Received: from c-67-169-41-183.hsd1.ca.comcast.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (67.169.41.183) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:57 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:48:07 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:05:03PM -0400, John Szakmeister wrote: > 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. > 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