From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ted Zlatanov Subject: Re: Credentials and the Secrets API... Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:46:05 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87halochci.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: John Szakmeister X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 07 15:46:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U3SkB-0002Ec-Ee for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:46:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755589Ab3BGOqJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2013 09:46:09 -0500 Received: from z.lifelogs.com ([173.255.230.239]:45127 "EHLO z.lifelogs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754000Ab3BGOqH (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2013 09:46:07 -0500 Received: from heechee (c-65-96-148-157.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [65.96.148.157]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tzz) by z.lifelogs.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 54EF2DE0E3; Thu, 7 Feb 2013 14:46:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" In-Reply-To: (John Szakmeister's message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:05:03 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:05:03 -0400 John Szakmeister 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