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cokane
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svn:date
V 27
2008-04-13T23:21:20.000000Z
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V 778
Add some improved logic to seahorse to have it gracefully fall back to insecure
memory usage for sensitive storage when gnome-keyring doesn't have the privileges
to use mlock(2)/munlock(2). This behavior is much more useful than the ungraceful
dereference of a NULL pointer (and subsequent crash of the seahorse programs) that
currently is employed.

This patch makes seahorse (and seahorse-agent, seahorse-daemon, etc.) warn the user
about having to use secure memory so that consumers such as Evolution and other
software can make use of seahorse.

A larger and more valuable project would be to provide some sort of unprivileged
user mlock(2) support in the base system. Some ideas are currently being discussed.

Reviewed by:	marcus, gnome@, imp
Approved by:	marcus (gnome)

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