Hi Brian, In 3.0 there is a lightweight long-running app called Spanning Sync Notifier that schedules the sync and displays UI. Currently, it doesn't hold your name/password since there is no need, but conceivably it could, and provide those credentials to the sync app when it launches. I'll look at making this change in the 3.0.1 udpate.
Thanks -- Larry Hendricks [email protected] http://spanningsync.com On Aug 15, 8:27 am, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > Larry, > > Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to have > solved the problem. I set Spanning Sync to sync every 10 minutes. I > have my keychain auto-lock after 11 minutes per your recommendation > (even though I would much rather have it at 5 minutes, I was willing > to sacrifice this in order to get Spanning Sync to work). It still > pops up asking me for my password. > > Does this basically mean that I have to keep my login keychain open > all of the time in order to use Spanning Sync? This is simply > unacceptable and Spanning Sync *must* do something to solve the > problem. I should absolutely not have to compromise security on the > rest of my machine just to use one piece of software (to avoid the > annoyance of getting prompted for my password every 10 minutes). > Perhaps Spanning Sync needs to keep a very small profile application > running so that it can keep the password in memory while it is running > (a la Apple Mail). It would be unacceptable if Apple Mail asked me > for my password every time my keychain locked, wouldn't it? The same > holds true for Spanning Sync. > > I look forward to a more appropriate solution to the problem. > > Brian > > On Aug 14, 12:28 am, Larry Hendricks <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Spanning Sync stores your Google account name and password on the > > login keychain. To store it anywhere else would be an improper usage > > of the credentials. If your login keychain is set to lock after 5 > > minutes then anything that tries to access it will end up prompting > > you for your login keychain password through the Mac OS X security > > system. > > > The reason you didn't see this in Spanning Sync 2 is because in that > > architecture the sync app was long running, and that became > > susceptible to memory issues (retained SQL database references by > > Apple Sync Services, mostly). With Spanning Sync 3 the sync app quits > > when done syncing and so on the next sync the new process has no > > reference to the Google credentials and has to read them off of the > > keychain. > > > The best practice here is probably to set your keychain lock time to>= the > > Spanning Sync sync interval. Of course, not setting the > > > keychain to lock after a period of time will work, too. If you have > > super sensitive data to protect, you might consider placing those on a > > new keychain (or any existing keychain that's not the login keychain) > > with increased security. > > > Thanks > > -- > > Larry Hendricks > > [email protected]http://spanningsync.com > > > On Aug 13, 8:55 am, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I've tried everything mentioned here, including restarting my > > > computer. I'm still getting the password prompts every 10 minutes. > > > HIGHLY annoying. Can you guys please fix this? > > > > Brian > > > > On Aug 11, 1:41 pm, Charlie Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > You might want to try just logging out of OS X and back in. Let me > > > > know how it goes. > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Charlie > > > > > On Aug 11, 3:05 pm, John Merrells <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Aug 11, 2009, at 1:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > > I just upgraded to Spanning Sync 3.0 today. I have Spanning Sync > > > > > > configured to update every 10 minutes. I keep my OS X Keychain > > > > > > fairly > > > > > > tightly locked down so that it locks itself every 5 minutes. For > > > > > > some > > > > > > reason now, Spanning Sync isn't remembering the fact that it can > > > > > > access my Keychain, and thus is requesting to have me type my > > > > > > password > > > > > > every 10 minutes. This was never an issue with Spanning Sync 2. > > > > > > > Is there something I am doing wrong, or is this a bug in Spanning > > > > > > Sync > > > > > > 3.0? > > > > > > I'm having the same problem. There only seems to be one keychain > > > > > entry for spanning sync and I have that set to very liberal access. > > > > > Yet > > > > > it's popping up every 10 mins. I've now moved the dialog box off the > > > > > screen..... > > > > > > I haven't tried a reboot... suspicious that I might need to do > > > > > that.... > > > > > > John > > > > > > -- > > > > > John Merrellshttp://johnmerrells.com > > > > > +1.415.244.5808 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Spanning Sync" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spanningsync?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
