Bug 677065 - Passphrase prompt does not have option to forget password immediately
Summary: Passphrase prompt does not have option to forget password immediately
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-keyring
Version: 14
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-13 01:19 UTC by Cesar Eduardo Barros
Modified: 2015-03-03 22:58 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-08-16 16:02:45 UTC
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Description Cesar Eduardo Barros 2011-02-13 01:19:59 UTC
Description of problem:

When typing the passphrase for a gnupg key in the passphrase prompt (which seems to come from /usr/libexec/gnome-keyring-prompt), it does not have an option to forget the passphrase immediately (that is, to be prompted every time the private key is used, even if it comes just after the previous use). The closest it allows is to forget the passphrase after 1 minute (it will not accept 0 minutes, changing back to 1 minute).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gnome-keyring-2.32.1-1.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Encrypt something to your private gnupg key
2. Use gpg2 -d to try to decrypt it, in the default configuration
3. Try to set it to forget after 0 minutes in the prompt which opens
  
Actual results:

The best I can get is to forget the key after 1 minute.

Expected results:

I should be able to, in that dialog box, set the passphrase to be used only once and then immediately forgotten.

Additional info:

The default seems to be to forget only on logout, which is horrible for gnupg keys (it opens a window where the key can be used without the user's knowledge which can last for weeks, or even more if the user does not regularly applies security updates and logs out/reboot after them).

I recall that on previous Fedora releases (Fedora 13 at least) the default was to prompt every time.

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