Storing passwords for panel plugin

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On 08/24/2009 12:12 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> 
> On 8/24/09, Simon Naunton <snaunton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am writing a plugin which requires me to store some passwords.
>>  Storing password in a plain text rc file is not secure, so I have been
>>  using gnome-keyring (it's installed with Xubuntu anyway...). However,
>>
> xfce4-mailwatch stores passwords. You might want to check its source
> to see how it handles this.

Likely the original poster won't be happy: mailwatch just stores
passwords in cleartext.  I won't rehash the rationale here; anyone
interested can search the ML archives.

	-brian