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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [OT] expiring passwds
From:       Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-11-11 18:46:10
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:42:59PM -0300, Marcos Dione wrote:
>     well, I don't know how to do it other way. thing is, every service
> (smtp, ldap, etc) needs auth. we're using several programs that may
> store passwords for those services (mozilla, evolution [sorry, not my
> desition]) and passwds change each 30 days, so those stored passwds
> become old. one solution is to not use the passwd manager, but e.g. evo
> has no way to deactivate that feature. so the proposed idea was to hack
> something to be able to both change the passwd in the domain (it's a NT
> domain, ugh) and those stored by those apps.
>  
gah, what a mess.
that goes into the same direction like the integration of kwallet and kdm.
see also http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35396 - even though that's
more about root tasks, while we're now talking about user tasks.
maybe pmax wants to comment on this ... :)

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