Hi Larry, That sounds like the perfect solution. I thank you for your attentiveness to this problem and look forward to your proposed solution!
Brian On Aug 15, 12:22 pm, Larry Hendricks <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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