[PATCH] mounting encrypted devices

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 06 April 2004 16:39, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> here is the first patch which allows you to mark devices as encrypted,
> so when you click at the icon on the desktop a password dialog will
> popup and ask you for the password.
> This is a first proof of concept, in later version maybe we can
> integrate kwallet support and also support for autodetection of
> encrypted devices in the devices io-slave.
> 
> The 'concept' of this patch is to put a helper application between the
> file io-slave and the mount tool. This helper application checks whether
> the device is encrypted, popups the password dialog in this case and
> passes this password to mount.

Looks ok to me.

Tiny thing: kdelibs_kio.patch defines overloads of existing methods (to add arguments
in a BC way). I think they should be marked as "KDE 4: merge with above" or so.

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