On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 12:31 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > Baptiste Mille-Mathias wrote: > > > Hi David > > > > This is a distribution problem not GNOME, because pam_keyring is not > > part of GNOME Desktop, and the distributor does the integration of > > pam_keyring, so the best thing is to address your concern to the > > ubuntu developpers. > > pam_keyring does not integrate properly to multi-desktop environment - > users of KDE or minimalistic desktops probably don't want running > gnome-keyring-daemon. It only wastes memory there - they will not use > GNOME applications. > > Current implementation is missing following feature: > - Remember password. > - If user selects other desktop than GNOME, quit. > > Thinking more about it, I can imagine trivial login helper (without glib > dependency), which only remembers password and waits for > gnome-keyring-daemon instance to pass the password to it. If it does not > appear in defined time, it will quit. >
Hey all, I am currently maintaining pam_keyring, so I figured I would give an update and answer some of the questions. Pam_keyring is not part of Gnome desktop, therefore it is up to the individual distributions to package and add it. I have worked with guys from Ubuntu, Gentoo, Arch, and Fedora on it, so we seem to be getting pretty good coverage so far. I have been busy, and sick so I am behind on releases. I should have 0.0.9 out the door soon. This release will support password change support and a bunch of other patches. I needed gnome-keyring 0.6 to be released with the changes I added for changing a keyrings password before releasing 0.0.9. As far as the other comments about pam_keyring here is what it does and doesn't do. It launches a gnome-keyring-daemon with proper UID, sets up the correct environment variables and trys to unlock a keyring with the password provided to pam. I would only have pam_keyring installed if I intended to use this functionality. I do know before KNetworkManager, many KDE people used it to launch gnome-keyring-daemon for use with nm-applet. Pam_keyring was never intended to be used for environments that didn't use gnome-keyring. It is pretty much designed for an environment where people are running the gnome-desktop, or running gnome-applications that utilize gnome-keyring-daemon for password storage. I would be glad to hear any other comments and or suggestions. Jon _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
