[Kmymoney-devel] OFX passwords

[Greg Darke]

> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:16:25 +0200
> From: Thomas Baumgart<thb at net-bembel.de>
> Subject: Re: [Kmymoney-devel] OFX passwords
> To: kmymoney-devel at kde.org
> Cc: Greg Darke<skunktrader at gmail.com>
> Message-ID:<201007201516.25823.thb at net-bembel.de>
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> Hi all,
>
> on Sunday 04 July 2010 16:22:43 Greg Darke wrote:
>
>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Version 3.98.2-svn1145609
>>
>> I am currently attempting to upgrade from kmymoney2 -- I have run the
>> CVS head version for +- 2 years.  There are 12 OFX enabled accounts in
>> the data file and I have updated them once every 24 hours for a few
>> years without any issues.
>>
>> Current environment is xfce running on arch64.
>>
>> I recall a few messages on this list last week (or the previous?)
>> announcing the change to the handling of cleartext OFX passwords.  My
>> problem is the following: I do not have kwallet installed on my system
>> and do not want to.
>>
>> Looking at Edit Account->Online settings->Account Details it appears as
>> though the intention is to allow storing cleartext passwords in the data
>> file as before.  The problem is that enabling "Store password" does not
>> actually appear to be persisted/handled correctly.  The password dialog
>> pops up while updating each account and the value of "Store password"
>> and the password itself is cleared.
>
> Not having KDE Wallet while still wanting to store the password is a new use-
> case that I did not think of before. That's why it is not stored.
>
>> Is this new feature still under development?  Or should I jump into the
>> code to see if I can "fix" it?
>
> Please feel free to do that. All the stuff is in kmymoney/plugins/ofximport. I
> just did a
>
>    find . -name \*.cpp | xargs grep Wallet
>
> in that directory which gives you an idea where the code cold be found. Please
> drop your patches on http://reviewboard.kde.org/.
>

Many thanks to Thomas for adding support for the use case where KWallet 
is not installed.  I can confirm that the current SVN build correctly 
handles the case where the OFX passwords are stored in the data file only.

Its almost time to retire my KDE3 build environment permanently.