From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Szakmeister Subject: Credentials and the Secrets API... Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:05:03 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 27 18:05:18 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 1RJSS8-00085Q-FG for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:05:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752792Ab1J0QFF (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:05:05 -0400 Received: from mail-vx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:54678 "EHLO mail-vx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751235Ab1J0QFE (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:05:04 -0400 Received: by vcge1 with SMTP id e1so2601771vcg.19 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:05:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=egkmMS86TB70oCb5LvYzQiJPv7iITxIaUpjgtxJEIUg=; b=a+ukva4+06yBy35/QGe7kBKbBZLFXTW/73o17Bcbz8ZkgfGaKIdDGsQHDabDhbOus6 Jq6V7osj8h6FWf2+zB0WdJraL9FpExUMgprf5AgkwH3dCTRgR1SRBlPJl3VScW+tsXdg Kakr1NB4NcYLMKi/zOwCA7Ta24jzvrwY4L3tI= Received: by 10.220.154.11 with SMTP id m11mr1071578vcw.133.1319731503357; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:05:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.94.67 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:05:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Sender-Auth: zxvbMBShjJnDqFaFXjmEhealats Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. 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. 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. -John