From edd at debian.org  Sun Dec 18 22:34:01 2011
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:34:01 -0600
Subject: [Rd] secure password token management method in R
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On 18 December 2011 at 16:16, Simon Urbanek wrote:
| Barry,
| 
| that's a great idea. I have created a package that allows you to read/write passwords to user's keychain:
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| http://www.rforge.net/keychain
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| So far it uses the Security framework so you'll need a Mac, it but I'm about to add a generic fall-back system (encrypted file on-disk) and possibly the gnome API as well.

If you do, I could try to test it against the KDE variant as well.  Are these
by chance generic "superset" definitions that work with Gnome's and KDE's keyrings?

Dirk

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[Rd] secure password token management method in R
Dirk Eddelbuettel