Credentials management API
A lightweight and easy-to-use password manager
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For Windows Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications we have Credential lockers for storing and retrieving passwords and it seems relevant to what I need but it is limited to 10 passwords per application.
If I develop a general email client for reading email from multiple email accounts then I would need to store passwords for each email account. Plus I might need a password to protect the other passwords.Nine or ten email accounts is plenty for most people but I don't want to limit people to that.
One possibility might be to use Keepass to manage the passwords but we would need, at a minimum, an API for retrieving the passwords. Since this would be for UWP it is probably not easy to do.
I have seen KeePass / Discussion / Help:How to get a password through command line? but it is a little vague. I hope my description is more specific. Also, that other question indicates it is not easy. So I hope this helps build a case for a simpler API. I know about KPS Script Files.
The following is off-topic from the preceding. I wish that this project (at least the discussions) could move elsewhere. A couple of years ago SourceForge moved and due to mismanagement my userid was deleted and they refused to fix the problem. I certainly want to avoid SourceForge unless it is a necessirty.
Last edit: Sam Hobbs 2017-11-29
Sourceforge isn't great but continuity of the help forums are one good reason to stay.
cheers, Paul
Continuity of the help forums is one good reason for me to be upset; I have lost everything from my previous membership.
To add to what I said, apparently credential lockers don't work the way I thought plus it does seem to be possible to use the KeePass API from UWP applications.