Task Proposal: Centralized account management

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Fri Jan 20 13:13:09 UTC 2012


> Em Friday 20 January 2012, Marco Martin escreveu:
> > On Thursday 19 January 2012, todd rme wrote:
> > > I assume the authentication would be stored in kwallet?
> > 
> > for those that have username and password i guess so, yeah
> > 
> > more complex stuff that require things like api keys eh, still don't know
> 
> 	Shouldn't this take into account the encrypted activities
> implementation? If the username and password was first filled in an
> encrypted activity it should not be available to every app on the system
> without prior authorization. If you use kwallet without changes that is
> exactly what is going to happen. Unless you use one wallet per encrypted
> activity with different passwords for each of them.

In which case unlocking a private activity should also unlock this private 
wallet. (This is to not have 3 password  challenges upon switching activity, 
or logging in.)
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