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Bug 100975 - change to authentication/password management
change to authentication/password management
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Pan
Classification: Other
Component: general
pre-1.0 betas
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: bluesky
Assigned To: Heinrich Müller
Pan QA Team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-12-11 21:02 UTC by gnomebugs
Modified: 2011-12-07 07:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description gnomebugs 2002-12-11 21:02:16 UTC 
I'd like to see a slight change of the authentication setting in the
newserver configuration. Specifically, I'd like to be able to indicate that
authentication is required (and optionally specify a username), but not
enter a password to be saved within Pan. When a connection to the
newsreader is made, a dialog box should be used to query for the password.

The user should be given a preference choice for how the password would be
handled: either cached for the duration that Pan is running, or only cached
for a limited period of time (user specified).
Comment 1 Darren Albers 2006-07-28 21:35:10 UTC 
I second this, I hate storing any password on disk.  My $home is encrypted but I still prefer that apps not store my password when possible.
Comment 2 Heinrich Müller 2011-12-03 10:59:25 UTC 
The password can be stored on disk for example with a Blowfish encryption.
I'll give it a try.
Comment 3 Heinrich Müller 2011-12-06 12:16:35 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
Comment 4 Darren Albers 2011-12-06 13:22:44 UTC 
Great news, I don't see the Git commit so if it is ok may I ask what was the resolution?   Was it to use something like gnome-keyring, not save the password or something else?

Thank you!
Comment 5 Heinrich Müller 2011-12-07 07:46:39 UTC 
It's not committed yet, but yes, it's gnome-keyring.
Perhaps I'll implement blowfish for the windows folks, but I don't know yet.