On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:38 PM, rupert.thurner > <rupert.thur...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> while looking for a possibility to help a user of subversion so he >> does not need to type the server password all the time, i got hinted >> to GnomeKeyring and seahorse. subversion offers to be compile with -- >> with-gnome-keyring option. >> > > I had never heard of seahorse. Looking at it, it seems to me like it is a > GUI for using GNOME keyring to manage things like your SSH keys etc. I do > not think that is what you need. GNOME keyring already provides a GUI for > managing your keyring and this is tied to your login session. What we did > for our CollabNet binaries was write a small command line tool that uses > the GNOME keyring API but gives you a simple command line interface. I do > not know why GNOME does not provide one. I would be happy to share the > source code if you want it. > > With this tool you can use the command line tool to create a keyring as > well as unlock it. The latter is what you would want to do when you login > (after starting the keyring-daemon). > > There have been several discussions about this in the past. If you haven't already, definitely search the archives. http://svn.haxx.se/users/
