On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Mark Crispin wrote: > > > Personally, I'm surprised that the Debian folks are so pro-passfile; I would > > have thought them to be the sort that would turn off passfile if we had it > > turned on by default. However, you never know... > > For the record, it was a user who requested it; I was just trying to see what > the current feelings of the Alpine dev team was. I'm also not a Debian > developer yet, just a young whippersnapper who's working on becoming one. > > That off-topic aside aside, I would definitely rather see GNOME Keyring used > instead. The API information is hard to find, for some reason; you can read > it some example code on the web at > https://svn.tinymail.org/svn/tinymail/trunk/libtinymail-gnome-desktop/tny-gnome-account-store.c > . If all this PASSFILE chatter does is frighten you washington.edu folk into > supporting GNOME Keyring, then I'd consider us all better off! (-:
And those of us who'd never want to touch gnome even with a 10 feet pole? And what if you're logged on from remote (which is typically use case for a _console_ program - gnome being a _desktop environment_)? Please.. PGP/gnupg - for signing, encryption and decryption of mail so why not also for encryption of the password file? -- kolla -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
