Fwd: about accounts file

Kevin Stange kstange at pidgin.im
Sat Aug 24 14:49:00 EDT 2013


On 08/24/2013 11:13 AM, Fernando Jung wrote:
> is there any way to encrypt the "~/.purple/accounts.xml" files? in it is
> all my accounts setting saved as plain text, including my passwords,
> which is not very secure

Please see:

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords

In 3.0.0, which is under development, we will support keyring systems,
which will allow you to encrypt your passwords in the keyring rather
than store them within the pidgin configuration.

Kevin

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