http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553272 User mxwu@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553272#c1 Mingxi Wu changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mxwu@novell.com --- Comment #1 from Mingxi Wu 2009-11-09 06:57:08 MST --- Can't reproduce the bug with pidgin-2.6.2, openSUSE 11.2 RC2 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553272 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553272#c3 Bernhard Wiedemann changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium CC| |novellbmw@lsmod.de Version|RC 2 |Final Severity|Normal |Major --- Comment #3 from Bernhard Wiedemann 2009-12-30 17:13:23 CET --- I can reproduce this on 11.2-GM-i586 with icewm and pidgin-2.6.2-3.4.3. On first start, passwords are loaded+used and removed from my old ~/.purple/accounts.xml and even when "Remember Password" is checked, they are never written there again. Bug also occurs with pidgin-2.6.4-4.1 from GNOME:Apps repo. My workaround so far is to copy over the old accounts.xml that includes the <password>xxx</password> lines before starting pidgin, but this is not good for everyone and hard to maintain. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553272 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553272#c5 Christoph Obexer changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |cobexer@gmail.com --- Comment #5 from Christoph Obexer 2010-01-04 21:23:08 UTC --- same problem here on Factory with pidgin 2.6.4-2.6-x86_64 (openSUSE OSS i think) and 2.6.4-4.1-x86_64 from openSUSE BuildService GNOME:Applications gets kind of annoying to reenter the passwords on every pidgin start^^ -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553272 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553272#c7 --- Comment #7 from Christoph Obexer 2010-01-05 14:07:08 UTC --- sorry i can't install that since this requires perl 5.10.0 ant that is not available for Factory (and using it would destroy yast) however not using the keyring would store the password in plaintext again i think - so i only consider that as a temporary workaround -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553272 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553272#c9 --- Comment #9 from Vincent Untz 2010-01-05 14:56:23 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7)

however not using the keyring would store the password in plaintext again i think - so i only consider that as a temporary workaround

If you're running factory, you're most likely hit by bug 567938, which is slightly different. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553272 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553272#c11 --- Comment #11 from Bernhard Wiedemann 2010-01-06 09:10:47 CET --- Vincent: your packages fixed this bug. I installed http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/vuntz:/11.2-testing/openSUSE... http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/vuntz:/11.2-testing/openSUSE... and now passwords remain saved in accounts.xml. Here is some reasoning why this is actually not all that bad (even though encrypted keyrings are certainly better): http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553272 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553272#c13 Vincent Untz changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|vuntz@novell.com | --- Comment #13 from Vincent Untz 2010-01-14 17:47:33 UTC --- (In reply to comment #12)

Vincent, do you think that your patch is ready to be used in online update instead of approach described in bug 566286 comment 17?

No, this patch is not perfect either. The fact that a password saved in the xml is removed once you use pidgin and a keyring is running is problematic. If we were assuming that pidgin would only run in GNOME, then the current patch would be fine. But if we cannot assume this, then I think we'll hit issues whatever we try to do if we try to use the keyring. I prefer to remove the patch if possible... -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.