Storing passwords for panel plugin

[Stephan Arts]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Brian J. Tarricone<brian at tarricone.org> wrote:
> 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.

Haha,

That was the best laugh I had in days :-)

Thanks brian,

Stephan