From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29575: 25.3; Secret Service API treats labels as unique Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 09:35:52 +0100 Message-ID: <87lgi87387.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87374hct91.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513067830 24139 195.159.176.226 (12 Dec 2017 08:37:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:37:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cc: 29575@debbugs.gnu.org To: Allen Li Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 12 09:37:06 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eOg3l-00063Z-E2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Tue, 12 Dec 2017 09:35:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Allen Li's message of "Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:47:13 -0800") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:CJQ86cWMgavvvLT/NMqjWSbN9XFWm5CeBZ5h+PfOoVncDTt8SmC tVrwpi+4X4hR25GHSX1dKTkzJ/xCxTD1HrANdbBnSP6YrKTTsDQPevXUpdd3j56/mHN15Jn uGO69gJCbEhPVxTVsHNQF4kE6LqkvZ5y+J7jdMIYQ+YNenzXBUufXOzRd+lwTkltMzk3xJE NBEfMEsboL7/UZDJOeXUA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:HhyGNJgVzcs=:RwOqEPh72f9bnZI9leKfKA 4lLyY3E2qW1o8ZWIlusNDTymHFdI2BAbhYXJBwdbzonT31TgV2PtgMVgseXxhUP00Akth1Pml ZCWIDozZYtnLiQvAWSxfPqndTU8+UFYNASydyUU/9WIApK7IflZv+fe3ceaad7Xcma2umWNF5 8raapRiavCiYq7IM6O3UtT5M9VpGpuYgCpXahc9J0epZzpiKuKeKolCTY4CCtmgBr600cEVa/ lyKdEiGp+T3/PzBrIg53B/Jf/9gLTkgIgwSezvJt1K8AIfmqKDfTeF/mOjRLJ3EcZNefCeVq/ MLSjvakXd0f5pvyyuLtf8L2DGf1zoUka0Eu1TsoN2GcIHegUfQb5o/LEydztG28EURpNWg7pt FswSVq1eReovnUkv0WbdlSZWVIZcmsoPWyJiHGzR9Wnsx4+Vk2nAjVBYPBBnHwFlUkkclEIZr /EuUTvG1rWYiU2m7x4d87cfzzQ6yej3Khzbd7pjK5Fri5T9iA+M+7bOJYWdEQqbkQNn1GUFxM CMQV8WG7/xkq3yAYIhvs0VyxD1T/yCUk80i+MDvyXwvMp4n5yh2uXW1T2gXeXMKc75DiPPemL w4iGoBqGGqsx8mEQNsCsZdu48/a6kmJgJAgiu6D/zCpzERotGYeB8eU4ykcFhHyfjE0udFA4r PQcPIDmGsNKWDu1wmgySvUIJW4/5uOxF+wjYEXbvlohpJMUmGwswpe4DgOucTRFARLYPzdjVJ eSecU9VG1TrbGcaYyhznQYmCAqP0JX+boMQOBcfsU81HnhoTz/mjypnkULT9kblYBq4NrMPn X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:140972 Archived-At: Allen Li writes: Hi Allen, > Yes, I plan on implementing a personal password manager using the API. Is it a standalone program, or an Emacs package? In the latter case I recommend to try auth-sources.el. It is the default "password manager" in Emacs. The Secret Service API is integrated as one backend, although there's room for improvement. >> Well, inside the org.freedesktop.Secret.{Service,Collection,Item} >> interfaces, an item is identified by an object path. We could extend our >> interface to allow both label and object path as item, and to throw away >> the "unique label rule" inside collections. > > That sounds like a better starting idea. One problem that comes to > mind is that the object path could be a valid label value, I think. That's possible, yes. But I doubt it will happen in reality. At least in Emacs we could check, that a label doesn't look like an object path, and suppress such items for being considered. > I don=E2=80=99t think the specification places any guarantees on the obje= ct > path either, e.g. if another program modifies an Item, does that > change the object path from under us? That would cause race bugs. secrets.el registers for several signals already, like "org.freedesktop.DBus.NameOwnerChanged", "org.freedesktop.Secret.Service.CollectionCreated" and "org.freedesktop.Secret.Service.CollectionDeleted". We could also register for the signals "org.freedesktop.Secret.Collection.ItemCreated", "org.freedesktop.Secret.Collection.ItemDeleted" and "org.freedesktop.Secret.Collection.ItemChanged" in order to be notified about such changes. I don't know whether I have sufficient time to work on secrets.el next weeks. Would you be interested in providing respective patches for secrets.= el? Best regards, Michael.