securrity problem on KDE 3.4/Kmail

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Saturday, March 19th 2005, 8:42pm

after starting Kmail, i got the question for the password for kdewallet.
on my workstation i keep Kmail open und let it look all 5 minutes to my mailboxes, what's ownly (usefull) paossible if i also kdewallet hold open.
My problem, and i'm sure thats not only my prob, is, that during the day always other people kan use my computer. Thats allways just for a short time and on my logg in screen, just to show them something.
But, on this situation it is possible for everybody to take a look at my passwords in kdewallet...

Herbert

have a lot of input
herbk

Suse 9.0 KDE 3.3

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jacek

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Saturday, March 19th 2005, 8:55pm

RE: securrity problem on KDE 3.4/Kmail

My kmail doesn't need the kwallet to be open, because I have checked the "save password in the configuration file" option in every server's settings --- this way passwords are stored in ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc in some encoded form (probably this isn't a very secure solution).

Note that I use localized version of KDE, so that option can have a different name.

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herbk

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Saturday, March 19th 2005, 10:08pm

RE: securrity problem on KDE 3.4/Kmail

hi jacek,
i think i have the same settings: i checked the "smtp Passwort speichern" box...
(german version)
whats your version of KDE? on 3.3 Kmail works without Problems on my system..

have a lot of input
herbk

Suse 9.0 KDE 3.3