From kde-core-devel  Tue Dec 21 13:26:09 2004
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:26:09 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KIO->GnomeVFS bridge started (looking for a Common-VFS)
Message-Id: <200412211426.15986.bastian () kde ! org>
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On Tuesday 21 December 2004 12:23, David Pashley wrote:
> Of course the nicest solution would be a dbus/dcop service for storing
> passwords. How I see such a service working would be:
>
> 1. Application needs a password
> 2. It asks the password storage daemon using dbus/dcop
> 3. The daemon looks for the password, if it can't find it, it pops up a
>    dialog box asking the user for the password
> 4. The daemon returns the password to the original asking application
>
> Using this, no application other than the password daemon would prompt
> the user for a password, be it a web browser, a GPG frontend or a remote
> printer queue. This would be useful beyond KDE or GNOME.

I fully agree and you can find such password daemon in=20
kdelibs/kio/kpasswdserver. It is used by all kioslaves since KDE 3.1

Cheers,
Waldo
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