opensync-users

[Opensync-users] Opensync for Password Managers

[Aaron W. <li...@wh...>]

Hello all,

I would be incredibly keen to see opensync used for synchronising
passwords. As much as appointments or contacts, the list of accounts and
passwords that one must keep track of is constantly changing.

When I was in Windows I used eWallet because I loved the fact that I had
the same database of passwords, account numbers, membership information
etc. on both the PC and on my Palm. Now that I am in Linux one of the
things that I miss most is an equivalent to this software and I am
currently using eWallet in Wine on my PC (but I have to go back to
Windows in order to synchronise).

There are open source password managers: for the palm there are STRIP
http://www.identicentric.com/products/strip/index.html and Gnu-Keyring
http://gnukeyring.sourceforge.net/ and for the PC there are PasswordSafe
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe) and MyPasswordSafe. I'm
sure that there are many that I have never seen.

None of these have good, if any, synchronisation capabilities. It
occurred to me that if opensync plug-ins were used to synchronise these
files, an exciting new possibility arises; all the other little password
programmes could synchronise with the password manager as well.

Firefox could synchronise to the "Websites" section/category of the
password manager, Thunderbird with the "Email Accounts", kWallet or
Gnome-Keyring could synchronise to the "System Passwords" section and so on.

Not only would there be an open source password manager
smartphone-palm-PC-pocketPC suite, but it would give the open source
world complete access to all their passwords in one place... or every place.

I think that if the snowball was started, other projects would jump on
board to add plug-ins.

Aaron

Re: [Opensync-users] Opensync for Password Managers

[Eduardo P. H. <eha...@ma...>]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:47:54PM +1300, Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
> Hello all,

Hi,

>=20
> I would be incredibly keen to see opensync used for synchronising
> passwords. As much as appointments or contacts, the list of accounts and
> passwords that one must keep track of is constantly changing.
>=20
<snip>
>=20
> None of these have good, if any, synchronisation capabilities. It
> occurred to me that if opensync plug-ins were used to synchronise these
> files, an exciting new possibility arises; all the other little password
> programmes could synchronise with the password manager as well.

I really liked the idea. I miss a way to synchronize the data from
kwallet between home and work, for example.

I have added a kwallet plugin to my "would-like-to-do-in-my-spare-time"
list. But unfortunately things don't get dequeued very often from my list,
due to the lack of spare time.

>=20
<snip>
> I think that if the snowball was started, other projects would jump on
> board to add plug-ins.

I hope so.  :)

--=20
Eduardo