Bug #55914 Inadequate documentation on storing passwords in some keyring

• Submitted: 11 Aug 2010 15:51
• Modified: 13 Aug 2010 15:37
• Reporter: Jack Ostroff
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Workbench: Documentation
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 5.2.26
• OS: Any
• CPU Architecture: Any

[11 Aug 2010 15:51] Jack Ostroff

Description:
Through web searching, I discovered that Workbench could store passwords in a keyring, but was unable to get it to work.  In my case, I use KDE on Linux, and it turns out that kwallet is simply unsupported at this time.  It appears to me (without having looked at the source code) that there is only one supported keyring on each platform (e.g., gnome-keyring-demon on Linux) but I couldn't find any reference to this in the manual.

How to repeat:
(Isn't it silly to require instructions on how to repeat a documentation issue?)

Suggested fix:
Add a section to the manual that lists which keyring mechanisms are actually supported under each platform.

[13 Aug 2010 15:37] Tony Bedford

Fixed in XML sources.