On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:58 PM, David Brodbeck <bro...@uw.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: >> As of 1.6, Subversion asks the user before saving passwords in >> plaintext. 1.6 also added support for using GNOME Keyring and KDE Wallet >> as password stores. > > Yup. There are, as noted, unfortunately a lot of hassles involved > with those tools in a non-GUI environment; what we really need is a > lightweight, secure, standard keyring service. But getting Linux > distros to standardize on *anything* is like herding cats, so I'm not > holding my breath. ;) The assumption seems to be that these are > things that only desktop users really want, so bundling them as part > of the GUI is sufficient. I don't blame Subversion for that, though.
GNOME keyring can work well in a non-GUI environment. I use it in an environment where I just SSH into a remote Linux server without any X environment. I just start gnome-keyring-daemon when I login. Not sure if KWallet has an equivalent. This even works with the ancient gnome-keyring libraries included in RHEL 4. I've also used it on Solaris. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
