[Bug 784849] Review Request: ksecrets - Secrets management infrastructure for KDE

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784849

--- Comment #6 from john5342 <john5342@xxxxxxxxx> 2012-01-27 10:45:53 EST ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> thanks!  mind dropping by #fedora-kde to help me answer some questions about
> how this is supposed to work

My vpn is blocking IRC at the moment.

Basically ksecrets implements an open, dbus based, protocol for password
storage. This is also the same one that gnome-keyring uses. So if you use any
Gnome based apps that require password storage then ksecrets should jump in
rather than gnome-keyring (i believe the deamon only runs in KDE so it
shouldn't affect gnome users). I was under the impression from the scarce
documentation that for the Gnome and KDE being stored in one unified place with
one storage password.

Unfortunately it seems my testing results were a little premature. I used
kwl2kss to migrate from kwallet to ksecrets (i don't think this is supposed to
be needed though), ran a couple of Gnome apps such as Epiphany (i don't use it
normally but the easiest way to test), stored a couple of passwords in it,
closed and opened Epiphany a couple of times to check it could retrieve the
passwords and was using ksecrets rather than gnome-keyring, checked that Kde
apps could fetch theirs and figured all was well.

When i started this morning i found ksecrets was trying to create new storage
all over again. Not had a chance to figure out why yet. In short it sounds
promising but perhaps not quite as close to prime time as i was lead to
believe...

> , and if/where to add dependencies on it?

Dependencies... i imagine when it is working properly in the same places as
kwallet. It is in the long run supposedly going to replace kwallet (more
unified, more features such as synchronization etc).

> do we
> need release notes?  those kind of things...

Once it is working there shouldn't be any needed.

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