Kdewalletmanager: How not to type password on startup (without blank password)

[robpower]

Hi to all!
I have a question:
some time ago I saw an article on a blog - I can't remeber where - saying there is a way to open your own kdewallet on startup using a script loaded on startup.

I remeber that the script worked for "non blank password" wallets: you had to write your own password inside the script.
Regardless of the probably security breach of a similar operation, I wan't to know what are the commands I need to use to open my wallet - with password - using console script.

The only thing I saw is launching "kwalletmanager kdewallet" I can ask to open my wallet (named kdewallet), but a window pop-ups asking the password. Any idea about how I can echo it inside the dialog?

Thanks for help

[dh]

Re: Kdewalletmanager: How not to type password on startup (without blank passwor

Hi robpower,

I think this currently doesn't work. You can script kwallet via DCOP like:
$ dcop kded kwalletd open kdewallet 0
But this opens a password dialog, which you want to avoid. I don't see a way to "echo the password inside the dialog".

OpenSUSE has a distribution-specific patch to KDE [1] that provides the functionality you ask for. Maybe you have seen something like this:
$ dcop kded kwalletd tryopen kdewallet <password>
Unfortunately, this undocumented feature is not available in Kubuntu (yet).

Anyway, putting your kwallet password cleartext into a startup script is probably as insecure as having an empty password for kwallet.

hth

[1] http://developer.kde.org/~binner/dis...-try-open.diff