Linux Support about autologin_plugin

[rekire]

Here we go credentials written with the plugin. Some cleanup is still required

[rekire]

Thank you for your input! I'm aware of libsecret from flutter_secure_storage, but I think it is not the right idea.

I want support two things:

• Simple logins in best case with one click
• Zero touch logins

I don't see where libsecret could help me with that. I am not aware of any synchronization of secrets for Linux in general. I think it would just be possible to support single platforms or a very generic way of keeping login data somewhere in /etc.

What do you think about this?

[SimonIT]

Hmm, yeah, you're right...
What's about pass (or any other password manager)? Yes, of course, the user must set it up manually, but then they could deliver the experience... Also, there are a lot of password managers, so I don't know how it would be possible to support those. A benefit would be that they would also work on the other desktop platforms

[SimonIT]

When reading this article: https://avaldes.co/2020/01/28/secret-service-keepassxc.html, libsecret might be very useful. Am I reading this right, that we could read the passwords stored by chrome and firefox? And if enabled, also those of KeepassXC?

[rekire]

Looks very interesting, do you know which Linux flavor and version has that requirements so that I can test it in a VM? I just use headless Linux and I am not familiar with the UI.

[SimonIT]

There seem to be several distros for GNOME and KDE:
https://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/
https://community.kde.org/Distributions
(I use myself Pop!_OS which uses GNOME)

[rekire]

Cool, that makes it easier. Do you have some sample code for that so that I have some start point?
Related: https://developer-old.gnome.org/libsecret/unstable/

[rekire]

I checked this sample code. This seems to work fine.

[rekire]

I wrote a PoC how to read and write credentials with that API (the API does not support usernames out of the box, but you can have custom fields I call one username :-). Next step is to bake that into the plugin