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Bug 118168 - http proxy password visible in gconf editor
http proxy password visible in gconf editor
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 85559
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Network
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-07-24 06:34 UTC by Muktha
Modified: 2005-07-15 16:33 UTC
See Also:
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Description Muktha 2003-07-24 06:34:55 UTC 
The password is shown in plain text and also visible when keying in.
Comment 1 Fernando Herrera 2004-04-13 09:52:01 UTC 
Maybe gnome-vfs should look for proxy user/server on gconf and then get the 
password via gnome-keyring. I don't know exactly the impact this change would 
have. There is out there GNOME apps using http connections without using gnome-
vfs http module? (then they should read directly gconf keys for proxy 
settings.)
Comment 2 Fernando Herrera 2004-04-23 12:07:35 UTC 
I'm moving this to gnome-vfs to poke the maintainers about it :)
Comment 3 Christian Kellner 2005-02-09 13:50:05 UTC 
gnome-vfs' http method does already ask the keyring if there isn't any password
specified in gconf. I am moving this to the control-center therefore which
should store the password in the keyring. Maybe some programs have to be changed
to so they access the keyring (epiphany?).
Comment 4 Teppo Turtiainen 2005-07-15 16:33:56 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into
our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85559 ***