Re: Password lookup from older files

[Bjoern Biesenbach <bjoern bjoern-b de>]

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Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> Excerpts from Bjoern Biesenbach's message of jue dic 03 08:35:43 +0100 2009:
>> Hi,
> 
> Hi, sorry for the late reply. 
> 
>> i wrote a little patch that lets you open an encrypted file if another
>> file with the same password was opened (and the key saved in keyring)
>> before.
>> This works by iterating through all "Document File" entries in the
>> keyring. If the right password was found, it gets saved together with the
>> file uri the fasten up the next try to open that file.
> 
> hmm, I'm not sure looking at passwords of *other* documents is a good
> idea. 
> 
Hi, thanks for your reply.

I think, that gnome-keyring was not made for this, but what, in general
is bad on that behavior? I don't see a better way for avoiding to retype
the passwords for my PDF's again and again. I periodically have to open
new files with always the same passwords (from University).

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