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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | pidgin does not remember passwords | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 | Reporter: | Holger Sickenberg <holgi> |
| Component: | GNOME | Assignee: | E-mail List <gnome-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Major | ||
| Priority: | P3 - Medium | CC: | cobexer, jengelh, lnussel, novellbmw, sbrabec, vuntz, wolfgang |
| Version: | Final | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86-64 | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
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| Found By: | Component Test | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Holger Sickenberg
2009-11-06 13:19:44 UTC
Can't reproduce the bug with pidgin-2.6.2, openSUSE 11.2 RC2 In the same environment? I can reproduce this on 11.2-GM-i586 with icewm and pidgin-2.6.2-3.4.3. On first start, passwords are loaded+used and removed from my old ~/.purple/accounts.xml and even when "Remember Password" is checked, they are never written there again. Bug also occurs with pidgin-2.6.4-4.1 from GNOME:Apps repo. My workaround so far is to copy over the old accounts.xml that includes the <password>xxx</password> lines before starting pidgin, but this is not good for everyone and hard to maintain. *** Bug 555610 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** same problem here on Factory with pidgin 2.6.4-2.6-x86_64 (openSUSE OSS i think) and 2.6.4-4.1-x86_64 from openSUSE BuildService GNOME:Applications gets kind of annoying to reenter the passwords on every pidgin start^^ Can you try the pidgin package from home:vuntz:11.2-testing? It should not use the keyring if it's not running. (this is only for 11.2 for now, though) sorry i can't install that since this requires perl 5.10.0 ant that is not available for Factory (and using it would destroy yast) however not using the keyring would store the password in plaintext again i think - so i only consider that as a temporary workaround (In reply to comment #6) > Can you try the pidgin package from home:vuntz:11.2-testing? It should not use > the keyring if it's not running. > > (this is only for 11.2 for now, though) Works, thanks! (In reply to comment #7) > however not using the keyring would store the password in plaintext again i > think - so i only consider that as a temporary workaround If you're running factory, you're most likely hit by bug 567938, which is slightly different. >however not using the keyring would store the password in plaintext
dm-crypt on /home works wonders. On the desktop, at least.. ;)
Vincent: your packages fixed this bug. I installed http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/vuntz:/11.2-testing/openSUSE_11.2/i586/libpurple-2.6.3-0.3.1.i586.rpm http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/vuntz:/11.2-testing/openSUSE_11.2/i586/pidgin-2.6.3-0.3.1.i586.rpm and now passwords remain saved in accounts.xml. Here is some reasoning why this is actually not all that bad (even though encrypted keyrings are certainly better): http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords Vincent, do you think that your patch is ready to be used in online update instead of approach described in bug 566286 comment 17? (In reply to comment #12) > Vincent, do you think that your patch is ready to be used in online update > instead of approach described in bug 566286 comment 17? No, this patch is not perfect either. The fact that a password saved in the xml is removed once you use pidgin and a keyring is running is problematic. If we were assuming that pidgin would only run in GNOME, then the current patch would be fine. But if we cannot assume this, then I think we'll hit issues whatever we try to do if we try to use the keyring. I prefer to remove the patch if possible... Stanislav disabled the keyring usage in pidgin for openSUSE, so closing. |