gnucash and gnome keyring

Fabio Coatti fabio.coatti at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 06:09:32 EDT 2015


In data mercoledì 25 marzo 2015 11:11:50, John Ralls ha scritto:

> > 
> > I'm using gnucash with mysql backend and I'm facing a possibly related
> > issue. My environment is KDE, but with all gnome/gtk libs needed by
> > gnucash. Every time I start gnucash and access mysql backed data, gnucash
> > asks for database user/password, then for keyring password. I expected
> > that next time gnucash will ask only for keyring password, but instead it
> > repeats the previous steps: mysql user/pass, then keyring. It seems to me
> > that gnucash tries to save user/password in keyring but at following
> > access it does not checks for keyring, or fails the check.
> > It is not a showstopper, but it can be a bit confusing and time consuming
> > for users: if the keyring is not available (understandable, as I'm
> > running on KDE), maybe gnucash should avoid to try to save the pass in it
> > (or use kwallet instead, that would be a big win :D )
> GnuCash itself doesn't ask for the keyring password, of course, Gnome
> Keyring does. But AFAICT from the code GnuCash should be querying the
> keyring for the password first and only asking for the password if it
> doesn't find it, so keyring should be asking for its password before
> GnuCash asks for the database password. I won't be able to debug this until
> I get back, so unless Geert can, it won't make 2.6.6.
> 
> Please file a bug so that this doesn't disappear into the fog of the mailing
> list archives.


Done, many thanks

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746873


-- 
Fabio


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