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Bug 581422 - x11-plugins/pidgin-gnome-keyring: Let Pidgin/Purple store passwords in the keyring
Summary: x11-plugins/pidgin-gnome-keyring: Let Pidgin/Purple store passwords in the ke...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Marek Szuba
URL: https://github.com/aebrahim/pidgin-gn...
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Reported: 2016-04-28 07:39 UTC by Marek Szuba
Modified: 2016-04-29 11:46 UTC (History)
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Description Marek Szuba archtester gentoo-dev 2016-04-28 07:39:45 UTC 
By default if you let Pidgin save your account passwords, it stores them in plain text in its configuration files. Installing and enabling this plug-in lets Pidgin use gnome-keyring for password storage instead, which is at least a bit more secure.

The ebuild itself seems simple enough, the only thing that I still have to implement is stripping some hard-coded compiler/linker flags from the provided Makefile. I should have a pull request ready shortly.

By the way, I would be interested in becoming the proxy maintainer of this package.
Comment 1 Marek Szuba archtester gentoo-dev 2016-04-28 08:09:36 UTC 
Ebuild ready and a pull request has been issued on GitHub.
Comment 2 Sam Jorna (wraeth) gentoo-dev 2016-04-29 11:46:51 UTC 
commit 5f5f50e4655d7da1cedc0f9c49a8d20010f9a6f1
Author: Marek Szuba <Marek.Szuba@cern.ch>
Commit: Sam Jorna <wraeth@gentoo.org>

    x11-plugins/pidgin-gnome-keyring: new ebuild, initial version 2.0
    
    By default Pidgin/Purple store saved passwords in plain text in their
    configuration files. This plug-in makes it possible to store passwords
    in a keyring instead.
    
    Gentoo-Bug: 581422
    Package-Manager: portage-2.2.28
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1368