Re: gtkicq suggestions

[bob kehs ksd org]

What if you are using gtkicq from someone elses acount somewhere. It would
not be a good thing to save the password in that case. A setting to prompt
for a password on startup would be a good thing.

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, James Henstridge wrote:

> If gtkicq has sensitive data that it is saving, it should use the
> gnome_config_private_[sg]et_string() functions to save it in its
> configuration.
> 
> This will save it to the ~/.gnome_private config file heirachy.  This
> heirachy has the permission bits set so it is only user read/writable.
> 
> That gtkicq doesn't do this currently is probably a bug that should be
> fixed by the author.
> 
> James Henstridge
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> On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Idan Sofer wrote:
> 
> > > any one that can get to <user home>/.icq/gtkicq
> > > by default it even is -rw-r--r--
> > so you just set chmod og-r and it's set up.
> > 
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