Authentification forms

[Rainer Dorsch]

Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2008 schrieb David Faure:
> On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > this post might be slightly offtopic. If there is a better place to ask,
> > please let me know.
>
> This is the right list, despite its historic name.

Ufff ;-)

> > I have many web pages which use authentification information from the
> > same ldap server. Konqui and kwallet do not recognize that this is the
> > same information (and there is no way they could I think).
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure, but isn't this what the "http realm" thing is all about?
> If the pages announce the same realm, then the same auth should be used?
> OK, maybe not if they come from different webservers (hosts) altogether.

Oh yes, they do come from different webservers.

> > When I change my password on the ldap server, the downside with this is
> > that I have to click through all entries in kwallet and change the
> > passwords manually.
>
> Yep, sounds boring.
>
> > Could I do a global search and replace in kwallet (or a plain file)?
>
> It's encrypted binary data, so I think the only way is to add the feature
> to kwalletmanager. This is your opportunity to learn Qt/KDE programming :-)
> Otherwise I suggest filing a wish for kwalletmanager, maybe the new kwallet
> maintainer feels like implementing it... send him cookies, that might help
> :)

 I filed a wishlist bug report:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166474     


I could not find out who is the new kwallet maintainer for the cookies... 
maybe he starts asking questions when he sees the bug report :-)

Thanks,
Rainer

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