Re: Daemons [Was: gob inside gnome-vfs ...]

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 26 Jun 2002, Mikael Hallendal wrote:

> ons 2002-06-26 klockan 10.28 skrev Rodrigo Moya:
> > On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 13:23, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > <quote who="Alexander Larsson">
> > > 
> > > > Can we please have some sort of password/authentication caching daemon. 
> > > 
> > > Hmm. Perhaps there should be some discussion at the summit about user
> > > daemons, where they're appropriate, and how many we have. GNOME 2.0 already
> > > has a whole bunch.
> > > 
> > I think most things can be done in gnome-session, right? There could be
> > just simple modules (GModule's) for every extra functionality. Thus,
> > when some process asks for authentication, an authentication cache
> > module would be loaded, and the same for every other extra stuff.
> 
> Would be nice to have something similar to Keychain Manager in Mac OS.
> http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/securityservices/keychainmanager/keychainmanager.html
> 
> which could be used by all programs that need to store/ask for
> passwords.

That seems to be different from what i want. I don't need (or want) to 
persistently store auth data. Just while my desktop (or rather my 
multi-process application) is running. 

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