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Re: username/password caching

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-02-22 18:41:16 CET

cmpilato@collab.net writes:

> Then I thought, what if each provider's "save" function accepted a
> flag that dictated the amount of data to save:
>
> 'none' - store no creds (but the system would call the function
> anyway in case the provider needs to do some kind of cleanup or
> admin task).
>
> 'username' - store a username only.
>
> 'all' - store all the creds.
>
> Then, we would change the config option to "auth-cache-type" (and the
> valid values would be 'none', 'username', or 'all', defaulting to
> 'username') and then change the command-line argument to
> "--auth-cache-type" with the same three valid values.

+1 on this idea, provided it's not a flag to every single save_creds()
implementation. Instead, it should be a simple runtime parameter in
the auth_baton hash. It can either be specific to the wc provider, or
global to all providers that might want to care.

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