Re: gnome-keyring changing passwords in login keyring in bulk

[Guy Hulbert <gh cotef net>]

Forgive me for intruding.

I'm lurking on this list.  I sent a suggestion to Brian off-list to fix 
the  intranet rather than his key-ring.  Since it is a large intranet, I 
thought there might be other victims of the IT department.  My 
suggestion (OpenID) was a non-starter.  It occurs to me now that OpenID 
integration might be of interest at some future date.

Cedric Sodhi wrote:
[snip]
> Is it possible (on the keyring side) to associate a single key with many
> entries? Would it be hard to implement? Sounds like a useful thing for
> the purpose Brian describes, where you use one password for many entries
> (over possibly many different applications).
>   

Even more useful would be the ability to maintain the state of the 
site-list with respect to a 'new password' and an 'old password' since ...

> On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 10:42:01AM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>   
[snip]
> > given [username and] password to a different password since clearly when
> > I am required to change my login password for this intranet, all of my
> > gnome-keyring stored entries will become invalid.
> >     

... it appears to me that (lucky) Brian will be required to make all 
these changes himself and if he can't get it all done at once, it may be 
useful for him if the keyring can keep track of things as he changes 
them ... and if the systems have different expiry dates ...

There may be all sorts of use cases that Brian has not thought to 
mention yet.

Or all this may be beyond the scope of the application (which I still 
haven't had time to try).

[snip]

--gh