[Authentication] KDE vs. Gnome vs. Firefox password management applications

[Michael Leupold]

Hi Dotan,

On Sunday 29 November 2009 23:14:53 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Currently the KDE password management application does not work with
> Firefox. The Gnome application may or may not, I don't know. There is
> a bug open on the Mozilla bugtracker regarding the issue:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278343
> 
> In that bug it was implied that the good folks at this list are
> working on a common standard for saving passwords, and that this
> standard may pave the way for integration between these three tools.
> Is this work ongoing? Is it stalled? What does it need to proceed?
> 
> Thank you for your hard work.

Work is on the way. The specification work is almost done and the GNOME 
implementation is already on its way (probably making it into 3.0 next 
summer/fall iirc). KDE (me) is a little behind but I've made plans to start 
implementing the spec around christmas. On the Mozilla side we've seen some 
interest for implementing the client parts but afaik there's isn't someone 
working on it. We've gotten some pointers on where to start implementing it 
once the daemon is up and running though.

If you want to help, just drop me a note so we could organize/manage efforts.

Regards,
Michael