From kde-devel Wed Apr 30 22:11:17 2003 From: George Staikos Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 22:11:17 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Storing passwords X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=105174096728605 On Wednesday 30 April 2003 16:11, Anthony J Moulen wrote: > On Tuesday 29 April 2003 04:57 pm, George Staikos wrote: > > That's basically the idea. I would like to have separate stores for > > different types of data though. The idea is to have several standard > > KDE-wide wallets, and then allow applications to create their own as > > well. For instance, there could be a "network passwords" wallet, a form > > data wallet, and a "local passwords" wallet to start. This way the user > > doesn't need to unlock his passwords to get form data. > > This would be interesting, I would think that it would be a kde wallet > manger which manages sub wallets. Any app which belongs to a wallet class > would be shared. Apps with special concerns could then require a special > class onto themselves. The manager would allow you to group classes under > a single unlock function. So I could do email, fish and kdesu passwords > all with one password. I also like the relock concept, so while I could > unlock multiple classes at once, I could go back and lock any one after > unlocking them. Should also be allowed for a single password, or per-class > password. I'll keep all of this (and the rest) in mind during development. My present plan, if all goes well, is to have something usable in June. I really don't want to make any mistakes in the design of Kwallet though, so I'm taking it very very slowly. -- George Staikos KDE Developer http://www.kde.org/ Staikos Computing Services Inc. http://www.staikos.net/ >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<