Re: xdg-basedir for secrets

2019-06-07 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, June 07, 2019 03:49:45 PM Jonas DOREL wrote: > To me, secrets are fundamentally different from data (even confidential > data) because they serve as a mean to authenticate you or authorize your > utilisation of some services. +1 > I guess the question is: should there be a dedicated

Re: xdg-basedir for secrets

2019-06-07 Thread Jonas DOREL
To me, secrets are fundamentally different from data (even confidential data) because they serve as a mean to authenticate you or authorize your utilisation of some services. I guess the question is: should there be a dedicated folder for secrets or should they just be in XDG_DATA_HOME and

Re: xdg-basedir for secrets

2019-06-07 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 07 Jun 2019 at 15:19:25 +0200, Bardot Jérôme wrote: > Le 06/06/2019 à 23:15, Jonas DOREL a écrit : > > Currently, most secrets (SSH Keys, GPG Keys, OAuth token) seems to be > > located in XDG_CONFIG_HOME. > And they should not, secrets are data not config. (for me) For what it's worth,

Re: xdg-basedir for secrets

2019-06-07 Thread Bardot Jérôme
Le 06/06/2019 à 23:15, Jonas DOREL a écrit : > Hi, > hi > Currently, most secrets (SSH Keys, GPG Keys, OAuth token) seems to be > located in XDG_CONFIG_HOME. And they should not, secrets are data not config. (for me) > > However I think one of the interests of the XDG basedir specification is > to