Re: How to store credentials ?

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 05/10/2026 à 16:16, Claus Dietrich a écrit :
> Am 05.10.26 um 07:28 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> > > At the moment, I will stay with 'secret-tool' on non KDE systems. I 
> > > didn't find a way to store/retrieve passwords outside of this tool 
> > > (like on KDE where there is a DBus API). If someone have more 
> > > information about that, he will be welcome!
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > OK, I found that: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/secret- 
> > service/latest/index.html
>
> I found a German article from 2010 which suggests, that the so called 
> "Secret Service API" has been developed to obtain a desktop agnostic API 
> for all desktops and applications.
>
> The "Secret API Specification" can be found here: https:// 
> freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec/secrets-api-0.1.html
>
> and lists the two developers Stef Walter (GNOME Keyring) and Michael 
> Leupold (KWallet Developer) who decided to offer a common interface.
>
> It seems to me that the D-Bus interface can now be used for all 
> desktops. Accordingly it shouldn't be required to use cli tools any longer.
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Best regards, Claus

It can be used only by the desktop that implement that interface. So at 
least KDE, Gnome, and maybe Gnome-like distributions like Mate, 
Cinnamon, and so on.

We will see when I have time to work on that.

--
Benoît Minisini.