<div dir="ltr">eventually you can update an old C++ plugin that manage storing master password in your host OS wallet of Keychain<div><a href="https://github.com/planetfederal/qgis-master-pass-cxxplugin">https://github.com/planetfederal/qgis-master-pass-cxxplugin</a></div><div><br></div><div>you can hire one of old devs of this plugin (mainly Alessandro Pasotti)  or ask for others to update it... was abandoned due to acquisition of the company behind this code. Fortunately they left the old code public.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Luigi Pirelli<br><br>**************************************************************************************************<br>* LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli</a><br>* Stackexchange: <a href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli" target="_blank">http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli</a><br>* GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/luipir" target="_blank">https://github.com/luipir</a><br>* Book: <a href="https://www.packtpub.com/eu/application-development/mastering-geospatial-development-qgis-3x-third-edition" target="_blank">Mastering QGIS3 - 3rd Edition</a></div><div>* Hire a team: <a href="http://www.qcooperative.net" target="_blank">http://www.qcooperative.net</a><br>**************************************************************************************************</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 10:05, Luigi Pirelli <<a href="mailto:luipir@gmail.com">luipir@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 at 12:36, Michał <<a href="mailto:fcs1@poczta.onet.pl" target="_blank">fcs1@poczta.onet.pl</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  

    
  
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        I have these questions for authentication system in QGIS on
        Windows 7 and 10 systems:<br>
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        1. Where directly is stored the master password ?<br></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.qgis.org/3.10/en/docs/user_manual/auth_system/auth_overview.html#master-password" target="_blank">https://docs.qgis.org/3.10/en/docs/user_manual/auth_system/auth_overview.html#master-password</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>is an hash of the master password stored in auth.db or externally in QGIS_AUTH_PASSWORD_FILE...</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><font face="Arial">
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        2. What is the rule of the QGIS_AUTH_PASSWORD_FILE on windows
        machines and how to use it ?<br>
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        Regards<br>
        Michal<br></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>you can chekc all the logic in the documentation:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.qgis.org/3.10/en/docs/user_manual/auth_system/auth_overview.html" target="_blank">https://docs.qgis.org/3.10/en/docs/user_manual/auth_system/auth_overview.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>or directly reading the code of</div><div>QgsAuthManager (<a href="https://qgis.org/api/classQgsAuthManager.html" target="_blank">https://qgis.org/api/classQgsAuthManager.html</a>)</div><div>and</div><div>QgsAuthCrypto that is used to manage dehashing  and based on QCA library (<a href="https://qgis.org/api/classQgsAuthCrypto.html" target="_blank">https://qgis.org/api/classQgsAuthCrypto.html</a>)<br></div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><div><br></div><div>Luigi Pirelli<br><br>**************************************************************************************************<br>* LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli</a><br>* Stackexchange: <a href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli" target="_blank">http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli</a><br>* GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/luipir" target="_blank">https://github.com/luipir</a><br>* Book: <a href="https://www.packtpub.com/eu/application-development/mastering-geospatial-development-qgis-3x-third-edition" target="_blank">Mastering QGIS3 - 3rd Edition</a></div><div>* Hire a team: <a href="http://www.qcooperative.net" target="_blank">http://www.qcooperative.net</a><br></div><div>**************************************************************************************************<br></div></div></div>
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