Re: To allow editing details?

[Stef Walter <stefw gnome org>]

On 14.11.2014 23:05, Weiwu Zhang wrote:
> Sorry if I asked repeated questions.
>
> With Firefox built-in password manager, there are plugins to edit the
> details of the stored web password, most frequently username_element
> and original_url, for experienced web users to combat strange cases
> when the web passwords were not stored correctly.
>
> I moved to seahorse to store my web password in attempt to improve
> security and lost the ability to edit details. They are in a read-only
> text-field in seahorse. I'd say one out of ten websites fail to have
> seahorse store passwords correctly without autocomplete value set to
> off (using Chromium).
>
> Traditional Linux/Unix empowers user in such a way that if you wish to
> use GUI, there are GUI. If you do something out of "ordinary", you can
> edit a text file or interface the database with a commandline tool. So
> in the old way there may be command options to do it? I guess this
> can't be kept in the case of gnome-keyring?

It could be. If someone did that work, I wouldn't be against including
such a feature in Seahorse.

All the best,

Stef