Bug 581422

Summary:	x11-plugins/pidgin-gnome-keyring: Let Pidgin/Purple store passwords in the keyring
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marek Szuba <marecki>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Marek Szuba <marecki>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/aebrahim/pidgin-gnome-keyring/
See Also:	https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1368
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Marek Szuba (RETIRED) archtester

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 (RETIRED) archtester

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