[Qgis-user] obscurate DB password from .qgs project

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Yves,

On Fri, 16. Nov 2012 at 20:17:53 +0100, Yves Jacolin wrote:
> Is it possible to store this credentials in "user setting" instead in the 
> project files? I mean currently if user open the project later he should fill a 
> again the credentials form, isn't it?

Right. If you don't save your password, you have to reenter it whenever you
restart QGIS.   But that's kind of the point of not saving the password.

But we could enhance QgsCredentials to optionally offser to save the password
in a encrypted file and guard that with a master password - just like Etienne
already suggested.

But as Qt apparently doesn't have something for encryption aboard, that would
probably require yet another dependency.


Jürgen

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