Re: Do you use multiple gnome-keyring keyrings?

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 15:44 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 20:37 +0000, Nate Nielsen wrote:
> > Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > >> Nope, never used the multiple keyrings. It never occurred to me that I
> > >> would ever want more than one keyring either.
> > > 
> > > Same here. If my girlfriend uses my laptop, she just fast-user-switches
> > > into her own user account. I can't see a use case for having two
> > > keyrings...
> > 
> > Yes, for sure. Obviously different accounts would have different keyrings.
> > 
> > In fact an application would need to have coded special support for
> > using any second keyring within the same user session.
> 
> Not really, key lookups always happens in all keyrings. You would need
> to set the default keyring to something when saving the passwords, and
> then change the default to another keyring, but after that all apps
> should be able to read passwords from both keyrings.
> 
> The idea is that one might not want to unlock the "more secret" keyring
> unless its necessary.
> 
> I'm not against removing this functionallity. I think it mostly came
> from me looking at other keyring implementations when doing the initial
> design.

Do you have any information on how this functionality in
other keyring implementations is actually used in the wild?
The design seems fairly similar to Apple's keychains.  Are
many Mac applications making use of the multiple-keychain
feature?

--
Shaun