Bug 404521

Summary: kdesu doesn't Remember Password
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: Ladislav Nesnera <nesnera>
Component: KDE4 WorkspaceAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P2 - High CC: francesco.cosoleto, rastislav.krupansky, thetazzbot, wstephenson
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Linux   
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Bug Blocks: 404528    
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Description Ladislav Nesnera 2008-06-27 12:14:46 UTC
I must to fill password always.
Comment 1 Ladislav Nesnera 2008-06-27 12:16:00 UTC
Created attachment 224805 [details]
snapshot
Comment 3 Ladislav Nesnera 2008-07-07 12:46:42 UTC
Small correction - I'm using KDE 4.1 (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.0/)
Comment 4 Lubos Lunak 2008-07-07 14:02:04 UTC
Even if you try again immediatelly?
Comment 5 Ladislav Nesnera 2008-07-07 15:06:15 UTC
You are right. Password persists if I try open YaST2 immediately. It seems there is on the time based limitation.
Comment 6 Rastislav Krupansky 2008-07-07 15:39:51 UTC
i can confirm similar experience and for KDE 3.5.9 also :-(
Comment 7 Lubos Lunak 2008-07-08 11:39:24 UTC
I guess this is only caused by the lowering the kdesu timeout to 5 minutes that was supposed to match sudo. Additionally it seems kdesu remembers the password only per-command, not for all following commands. Any better idea than returning the timeout back to 2 hours?
Comment 8 Ladislav Nesnera 2008-07-09 10:38:43 UTC
What about KDE Wallet?
Comment 9 Dirk Mueller 2008-07-15 11:51:00 UTC
we don't want to store the users or root's password anywhere ever  on disk - not even in kwallet.
Comment 10 Stephan Binner 2008-07-20 15:07:16 UTC
Sounds remembering password for longer time than 5min is a WONTFIX then.
Comment 11 Lubos Lunak 2008-07-23 16:16:14 UTC
Reopening, the password will not be stored in the wallet, but the timeout can be raised back.
Comment 12 Lubos Lunak 2008-07-28 15:22:47 UTC
Changed timeout back to 2 hours for 11.1.
Comment 13 Ladislav Nesnera 2008-07-28 16:42:01 UTC
May be it to late but could be possible to replace in this dialogue check box "Remember password" with selection list labelled Remember password with choices like:
none
to end of session
for XX minutes
XX could be 120 as default and user can rewrite it by numeric value.
Comment 14 Francesco Cosoleto 2008-07-30 08:53:42 UTC
Timeout to 2 hours for 11.1 also for KDE 3? May be this feature configurable? 
Comment 15 Lubos Lunak 2008-07-30 10:00:52 UTC
kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group Passwords --key Timeout <seconds>
Comment 16 Lubos Lunak 2008-08-18 12:19:12 UTC
*** Bug 415426 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Francesco Cosoleto 2008-08-18 13:13:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #15 from Lubos Lunak)
> kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group Passwords --key Timeout <seconds>
> 

Very well, but it should be more accessible to users as it seems undocumented feauture too.