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Bug 586562 - Cannot setup an account without saving the password
Cannot setup an account without saving the password
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 637135
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Accounts
2.27.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
: 609222 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 636613
Blocks: 602450
 
 
Reported: 2009-06-21 19:13 UTC by Stanislaw Pitucha
Modified: 2010-12-15 08:59 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Stanislaw Pitucha 2009-06-21 19:13:09 UTC 
Currently there's no way to setup an account if I don't want the password to be saved locally. There are environments where I want to use the IM account sometimes, but I definitely don't want to have my password saved. 

Even worse - account with no password disappears from the list, even though other options were already set. This is confusing.

Yet another problem -> if I delete the account, will the saved password be deleted from the key store? I'm not informed about it at all.
Comment 1 Jonny Lamb 2009-06-21 19:54:41 UTC 
(Relatedly, if you don't set a "password" param on an McAccount, then it is "incomplete" and does not appear in Empathy's account list.)
Comment 2 Olivier Le Thanh Duong 2009-06-22 01:58:56 UTC 
> Yet another problem -> if I delete the account, will the saved password be
deleted from the key store? I'm not informed about it at all.
No it won't. You have to remove it manually from the Gnome keyring with seahorse for example
Comment 3 Tony Knott 2009-10-31 12:36:47 UTC 
Since the status is currently UNCONFIRMED, I'm posting this to confirm it. Currently, Empathy FORCES the user to save his account passwords. Several users prefer not to do that, and programs who offer this option (e.g. Evolution, Firefox, Pidgin) always make it optional regardless if they encrypt it or not.
Comment 4 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-11-03 10:29:35 UTC 
Confirming as that seems to be a popular request. Note that this is blocked by this mission-control bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24868
Comment 5 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-03-23 12:22:08 UTC 
*** Bug 609222 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-05-05 07:49:14 UTC 
*** Bug 617715 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-12-07 10:00:40 UTC 
Some progress are being made with the SASL branch: bug #636613
Comment 8 Jonny Lamb 2010-12-15 08:59:57 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but we are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed. It should be solved in the next software version. You may want to check for a software upgrade.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 637135 ***