Tidying up password storage in Amarok
Matěj Laitl
matej at laitl.cz
Tue Apr 10 18:16:35 UTC 2012
On 10. 4. 2012 Stefan Derkits wrote:
> > Hmm, I may want to allow storing last.fm password in plain-text
> > while disabling to store MySQL pass in plain-text. The confirmation
> > should be probably per-plugin then.
>
> that sounds a little bit not so user-friendly (having to confirm
> secure storage for every plugin).
> I would suggest to always take the most secure storage available,
> without any config options or per plugin options.
> If I have a secure password store like KWallet why would I want to
> save any password in plain text?
I didn't express myself correctly, for sure KWallet should be used by default
without asking. I wanted to say that if KWallet isn't available, I may want to
be asked for each password separately to store it in plain-text or not at all.
(because some of them may be more valuable)
(but this is not a big deal, I won't oppose merging even if this little thing
is not implemented)
Matěj
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