Re: Daemons [Was: gob inside gnome-vfs ...]

[Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se>]

ons 2002-06-26 klockan 16.45 skrev Alexander Larsson:
> On 26 Jun 2002, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> 
> > ons 2002-06-26 klockan 10.28 skrev Rodrigo Moya:
> > > On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 13:23, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > > <quote who="Alexander Larsson">
> > > > 
> > > > > Can we please have some sort of password/authentication caching daemon. 
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm. Perhaps there should be some discussion at the summit about user
> > > > daemons, where they're appropriate, and how many we have. GNOME 2.0 already
> > > > has a whole bunch.
> > > > 
> > > I think most things can be done in gnome-session, right? There could be
> > > just simple modules (GModule's) for every extra functionality. Thus,
> > > when some process asks for authentication, an authentication cache
> > > module would be loaded, and the same for every other extra stuff.
> > 
> > Would be nice to have something similar to Keychain Manager in Mac OS.
> > http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/securityservices/keychainmanager/keychainmanager.html
> > 
> > which could be used by all programs that need to store/ask for
> > passwords.
> 
> That seems to be different from what i want. I don't need (or want) to 
> persistently store auth data. Just while my desktop (or rather my 
> multi-process application) is running. 

With something similar to keychain manager in place you chould have
something like a session-only keychain which only stores the password
for the session.

I think that it's kinda bogus that every app needs to figure out how to
do this correctly for themselves.

Some of it can be put in GnomeVFS, but we also have passwords for
Galeon/Mozilla/Evolution/..., they could all use the same framework/API
for doing this.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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