Re: Bug#239548: ITP: gnome-keyring -- gnome keyring system is a program that keep password and other secrets for
Updated Description: program that keep passwords and other secrets
gnome-keyring is a daemon in the session, similar to ssh-agent, and
other applications can locate it by an environment variable.
.
The program can manage several keyrings, each with its own master
password, and there is also a session keyring which is never stored to
disk, but forgotten when the session ends.
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 12:20, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : gnome-keyring
> Version : 0.2
> Upstream Author : Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
> * URL : http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-keyring/0.2/
> * License : GPL, LGPL
> Description : gnome keyring system is a program that keep password and other secrets for users.
>
> gnome-keyring is a program that keep password and other secrets for
> users. It is run as a damon in the session, similar to ssh-agent, and
> other applications can locate it by an environment variable.
>
> The program can manage several keyrings, each with its own master
> password, and there is also a session keyring which is never stored to
> disk, but forgotten when the session ends.
>
> The library libgnome-keyring is used by applications to integrate with
> the gnome keyring system. However, at this point the library hasn't
> been
> tested and used enought to consider the API to be publically
> exposed. Therefore use of libgnome-keyring is at the moment limited to
> internal use in the gnome desktop. However, we hope that the
> gnome-keyring API will turn out useful and good, so that later it
> can be made public for any application to use.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.4
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
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