i agree, but would be nice a "disable button" for users who dont need it

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Mark Phalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 09:19 +0200, Roman Strobl wrote:
>> Andras Barna wrote:
>> > (/me hates pidgins' keyring thingy)
>> >
>> +1 - any ideas about how to turn the keyring off? I have filed a bug for
>> this:
>>
>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3110
>
> You should be careful about this. Pidgeon/gaim used to store the
> passwords in a plain text/xml file in your home directory. This has a
> number of potentiallly serious security implications - especially if
> your home directory is shared over NFS.
> The keyring is a *good* idea.
>
> -M
>
>



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Andy
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