Tidying up password storage in Amarok

Bart Cerneels bart.cerneels at kde.org
Fri Apr 13 09:24:13 UTC 2012


On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:13, Matěj Laitl <matej at laitl.cz> wrote:
> On 13. 4. 2012 Bart Cerneels wrote:
>> > > Incidentally the MySQL configuration interface is implemented using
>> > > KConfigXT (an xml file which is translated to c++, which then writes to
>> > > plaintext, if I've understood it correctly), i.e. the settings aren't
>> > > stored in KWallet. I'll look into whether that can be changed when I'm
>> > > migrating the plugins to use PasswordManager.
>> >
>> > You're right. I think that it suffices to score just the database login
>> > name and password in KWallet, other options should be left in KConfigXT.
>>
>> I don't think it's really needed to move that to KWallet.
>
> What do you mean by "that" here? Login name? Database name? Database password?
>

database credentials in general. i.e. there is not real need for the
database config to use kwallet.


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