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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [OT] expiring passwds
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-11-11 19:29:46
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On Tuesday 11 November 2003 13:46, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> 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.

  Sorry didn't read the thread and I'm not sure of all the details.  Anyhow, 
no big changes can be made to kwallet before 3.2.1.  After 3.2.0 there can be 
many bugfixes though.

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George Staikos
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