[Authentication] Some input

[Michael Leupold]

On Saturday 11 July 2009 12:25:10 Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:34:25 +0200
> Michael Leupold <lemma at confuego.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 10 July 2009 20:40:54 Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > > - can it be usable without dbus? some people don't like dbus. simple
> > >   CLI program to query the database?
> >
> > While it should be possible it's currently not planned as part of the
> > specification. After all even CLI programs may use the D-BUS :)
>
> Yes, but some people don't want to have dbus installed at all.  I don't
> want to go into a discussion here about how good or bad dbus is.  But
> it's a fact that some people don't want it all, so the option to
> interact with the secret store without going through dbus would
> be nice.

I guess the specification/API could be ported to a different BUS or no BUS at 
all (mere library). However the main concern of the spec is to allow different 
applications based on different libraries running on the same desktop to 
access a common secret storage. This requires common means of communicating. 
And as D-BUS provides such a communication facility, is wide-spread and seems 
to be the major desktops' bus-of-choice we'll be concentrating on it.

This doesn't mean implementations are banned from providing other ways to 
interoperate (eg. Keyring currently implements its own socket-based approach) 
or even provide the same API on a different bus.

Regards,
Michael
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