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Bug 555394 - Use gnome-keyring to store passwords on clients
Use gnome-keyring to store passwords on clients
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: ekiga
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Ekiga maintainers
Ekiga maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
: 593706 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-10-07 13:32 UTC by Eugen Dedu
Modified: 2020-06-06 16:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Eugen Dedu 2008-10-07 13:32:57 UTC 
From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501141 :

"I'm wondering why ekiga isn't using gnome-keyring to store passwords and
instead stores them in a plain text file.   It seems that the ekiga version
in etch did at least depend on lingnome-keyring0 but I do not know whether
it actually used it to store the password files."
Comment 1 Peter Robinson 2009-05-27 13:18:09 UTC 
While debugging I noticed that the accounts are in a single unencrypted string in gconf. This isn't great and it should store it in a keyring. I'm not sure if gtk offers a generic keyring api that can then integrate with other backends depending on platform.
Comment 2 Snark 2009-08-31 20:27:00 UTC 
*** Bug 593706 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Snark 2009-09-17 20:11:17 UTC 
The libgnome-keyring0 was there because ekiga linked to a lib which linked to it: it wasn't used.

Marking this bug as a duplicate of another (more recent) but more commented bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 568135 ***
Comment 4 André Klapper 2020-06-06 16:30:22 UTC 
Ekiga is not under active development anymore:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/273

Ekiga saw its last release 7 years ago. The last code commits were 4 years ago.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (and transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active Ekiga development again in the future.