On 9/28/07, Diego Escalante Urrelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you thought on adding a warning dialog > like gnome-keyring when someone is trying to access this info?
No; this is a larger discussion but really quickly: I don't believe that the gnome-keyring "allow app X to access key Y?" is a good idea because: 1) The desktop is one security domain; any app can ptrace()/LD_PRELOAD/X11 etc any other app. SELinux is an attempt to break this down, but until we have X access controls etc. it's incomplete. 2) No dialog like this will ever make sense to a normal person. However, let me lay out quickly how web-login-driver relates to gnome-keyring. In an ideal world, everything would be using one store for usernames and passwords. There is work to make Firefox use gnome-keyring. Even if that work was complete, web-login-driver still serves two purposes: 1) Notifying apps via D-BUS when the signon changes, so you don't have to do all the inotify goo + signons parsing yourself 2) Serving as the canonical reference for the URL+HTML form field matching to a sensible hint like "GMail". _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
