Gnome keyring integration

[idnzor]

I was thinking, MailCheck at the moment saves passwords in plain text files, I was wondering is it possible to integrate it with Gnome Keyring Manager so that it can securely store password? Just an idea...

[eosten]

It's quite possible, but the Python bindings for Gnome Keyring are virtually unmaintained; for at least a cycle or two, they would segfault any application that used them, and no one really noticed. They're also quite baroque and confusing, and could probably use some rethinking.

But, for the most part, if people have access to plaintext files on your hard drive, they're likely to have access to your Keyring anyway, since it's unlocked on login.

[RYX]

Umm, it already uses gnomkeyring ;) ...

I have created an AccountOption that stores the value inside the keyring and only stores an id inside the textfile. But the gnomekeyring-integration (and its bindings) is still fairly experimental and so is the MailCheckScreenlet ...

I hope for the next releases of the major distros to install the pam module for the gnomekeyring by default (don't know the name but there is some module for that). It initializes the personal keyring automatically on login and allows apps to use the keyring-daemon in a more comfortable manner.

:)