Hi, On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 16:10, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Patrice Dumas wrote: >> I am aware of 2 projects trying to solve that issue: >> http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=UniConf >> http://www.libelektra.org/Main_Page > > Those are configuration frameworks, not password stores. They aren't > designed to hold passwords in a secure way (encrypted, with the possibility > to use a passphrase for true encryption (without a passphrase, it's trivial > to reverse the obfuscation)) like KWallet and gnome-keyring are. > > And adding yet another framework doesn't solve the problem of there being 2 > competing frameworks (KConfig vs. GConf for configuration, KWallet vs. > gnome-keyring for password stores) at all, it makes it worse. On a side note, is there any FreeDesktop.org effort on standardizing configuration frameworks and / or password stores ? Not necessarily providing the One True Replacement for the Gnome / KDE alternatives, just providing a standard on which those alternatives could be built to work together ? Sorry to kind of hi-jack the thread, I just thought I'd ask out of interest :) Regards, ---------- Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
