Review Request 120202: [OS X] improvements to the kwallet/OSX keychain integration
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Thu Sep 18 23:28:38 BST 2014
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kdeui/util/kwallet.h
<https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120202/#comment46647>
This is bad, slots in an ifdef are a bad idea.
Is there any reason this slot has to be in KWallet and not some other object?
- Albert Astals Cid
On set. 14, 2014, 3:36 p.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote:
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> (Updated set. 14, 2014, 3:36 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Software on Mac OS X and kdelibs.
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> Repository: kdelibs
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> Description
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> I'm still working on (the KDE4-based version of) my OS X keychain backend for kwallet. I'm at a point where I think I can present a work-in-progress in an RR because at least one feature has been improved enough to be of interest for everyone, and also because I could use feedback on how to proceed.
> I'm currently focussing on 2 settings that are configured in the kwallet KCM (SystemSettings), and for which I'm working on an implementation not requiring kwalletd and/or DBus.
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> - idle time closing of wallets. This feature was not supported in the commited version presented in https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119838/ The present patch adds an idleTimer and a shared lastAccessTime member. The idleTimer is reset each time a client performs one of a series of actions that I count as wallet accesses, and before resetting I update the idle timeout value from KConfig. When the timer fires, the elapsed time is compared to the shared last access time, and if it is >= the timeout, the wallet is closed. This applies only to "KDE keychains", so keychains used by OS X applications should not be affected.
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> - "close when last application exits". This requires maintaining a "user list" which keeps track of what application has what wallet open. I've implemented an "internal" version of such a registry, mapping wallet name to application names and the list of wallets they have open (a list of wallet reference, pid per application name). The registry is functional, but I have not yet decided (read: figured out) how to make a distributed representation of it.
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> So the work-in-progress concerns the distributed user registry. The idea would be to maintain the registry in shared memory, meaning it'd be reset (= disappear) when the last application exits, contrary to a file which can go stale. This would be simple if QSharedMemory objects could be resized, but apparently they cannot, so I'll have to look at other solutions possibly involving OS X frameworks (NSData and it's non-objectiveC version CFDataRef or CFMutableDataRef might be candidates). Suggestions welcome.
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> Other work in progress concerns a less wheel-reinventing approach that builds on kwalletd and DBus. I don't see why the code used in `kwallet.cpp` wouldn't work, but I must still misunderstand its finer details. The present patch contains outcommented code that does indeed cause kwalletd to be launched and slots and signals to become visible e.g. in `qdbusviewer`. But they don't work, which in turn makes the whole kwallet layer dysfunctional. Here too feedback is welcome on how what I'm missing and/or how to get this to work.
> Once kwalletd works, wallet idle timeout closing and closing when the last client exits should work out-of-the-box, or at least I suppose.
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> Diffs
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> kdeui/util/kwallet.h d7f703f
> kdeui/util/kwallet_mac.cpp 8344ebb
> kdeui/util/qosxkeychain.h d0934e6
> kdeui/util/qosxkeychain.cpp 7cb9a22
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120202/diff/
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> Testing
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> OS X 10.6.8, kdelibs 4.14.1 git/master, KDE/MacPorts 4.12.5 .
> Once finalised, all changes should port easily to KF5's kwallet_mac.cpp .
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> Thanks,
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> René J.V. Bertin
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