On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 11:01 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 09:24 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > Why does it keep my mail account password in the Gnome keyring? > > > > Because that's how it's programmed. > > > > As to philosophically why it does it, I presume that's because it > > removes the need for the programmers to implement (and maintain) a > > secure store for passwords - > > So, Thunderbird implements and maintains a secure store for mail > passwords without the need for me to reveal my login password?
There's no need to reveal your login password - what are you going on about??? > But > evolution programmers expect my login password in order to save them a > little added work? No, not at all. Please find out about thing before assuming the worst. > > > why do it when there is a gnome component > > that is specifically designed to keep passwords safe. > > Because my passwords being kept safe is for MY convenience, not yours. Nothing to do with me. > > > > If you have disabled Gnome keyring, then that's probably why it keeps > > asking for your password - Evo has no other place to store passwords, > > You have no other place to store passwords because you failed to design > and code a place to store passwords. > Again, nothing to do with me - why the "you" all the time?? I'm just a user. And, for your information, Evolution used to have it's own password store, but FOR SECURITY REASONS the task of securely storing passwords was handed over to gnome keyring. > > hence it needs to ask you for them each time. > > > > And I don't think you need to be particularly "experienced" with them to > > let a program use keyrings - it's just an encrypted store of passwords. > > My login password allows anyone with access to it, including evolution > developers, to perform actions requiring root permissions. You can put any password you want on the gnome keyring - it doesn't have to be your login password. The prompt for a password is not an evolution one either, so even if you do use a precious password, then Evo never sees it. Please stop talking bullshit. > Giving you > access to my login password is a severe security breach, and all for > your convenience, not mine. Frankly, I am surprised that you have been > getting away it. Haven't any other users complained? No, all other users see it as a benefit. If you don't like the way Evolution does things, you are at liberty to submit patches to "improve" things or use another piece of software. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
