Re: [gnome-love] gnome-keyring and PAM

[Fernando Herrera <fherrera onirica com>]

Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:22:28PM -0500, mike flyn org escribió:

> Would it make sense to write a PAM module that unlocks the default keyring
> automatically when a user logs in using the user's system authentication
> token?  I have experience programming with PAM and may be interested in
> implementing this.

        Each gnome keyring is encrypted using the keyring master
password, so if we want to automatically unlock them we would need to
store master passwords somewhere unencrypted, and I think we don't want
it.

> On a semi-related note, has there been any talk about making a
> gnome-keyring-like desktop-independent interface and creating a
> freedesktop.org standard out of it?  It seems like the gnome-keyring/KWallet
> backends would be great candidates for a merged standard.

        I don't know. But gnome-keyring only depends on glib for the
core and on gtk+ for the asking dialogs. Maybe we could have different
asking dialogs per desktop and use only one core. I don't have idea
about how KWallet works.

Salu2


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