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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Credentials and the Secrets API...
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:46:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87halochci.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEBDL5Udooim_3Za76Q1Rt_aGXtsSv76nxRegGWRBE=WJQzfZA@mail.gmail.com> (John Szakmeister's message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:05:03 -0400")

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:05:03 -0400 John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net> wrote: 

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

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

Do you think the Secrets API has matured enough?  KDE has had a new
release since your post...

Thanks
Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-07 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-27 16:05 Credentials and the Secrets API John Szakmeister
2011-10-27 17:48 ` Jeff King
2011-11-01  6:39   ` John Szakmeister
2013-02-07 14:46 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2013-02-09 10:58   ` John Szakmeister
2013-02-20 17:01     ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-02-21 19:27       ` John Szakmeister

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