Bug 96672

Summary:	Authorization dialog keeps popping up despite "Keep password" checkbox being selected
Product:	[Unmaintained] kresources	Reporter:	Tristan Miller <psychonaut>
Component:	remote	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Tristan Miller 2005-01-09 23:36:39 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I have been accessing a remote, password-protected calendar for about a year now.  I would enter the password (usually just by pressing enter, as I believe the username/password has been fetched from kwallet) once upon KDE startup, and because I had the "keep password" checkbox checked, updates would be automatically downloaded at the specified time interval without me being reprompted.  However, a month or two ago upon bootup, I mistyped the password in the authorization dialog window.  Even though I subsequently entered the correct password and gained access to the calendar, it seems the "keep password" option is being ignored.  Every hour the authorization dialog pops up again asking for my username and password.

I don't know if this is a problem with korganizer or kwallet.  The settings for both programs appear to be in order.

Comment 1 Tristan Miller 2005-01-16 22:38:28 UTC

I attempted to work around the bug by removing the remote resource in question from KOrganizer and then re-adding it.  However, the bug persists.

Next I will try removing its associated entries in KWallet to see if that might fix the problem.  Will report on my findings.

Comment 2 Tristan Miller 2005-01-16 23:24:25 UTC

I deleted the wallet containing the remote calendar's username and password.  Next time KOrganizer tried to access the resource, I was prompted to create a new wallet to store the username and password.

This had no effect on the bug; I'm still periodically prompted for authorization.

Comment 3 Tristan Miller 2005-01-23 22:16:22 UTC

Confirming the bug still exists with KDE 3.4 beta 1.

Comment 4 Pauli Virtanen 2005-02-21 18:35:30 UTC

I have also seen this behavior occasionally on KDE 3.4 Beta 2 (compiled from source using Konstruct, on Ubuntu Hoary), but it does not appear to be very deterministic. Sometimes killing all KDE program instances and restarting Kontact fixes this, but not always. I have Kwallet in use, and the calendar is behind webdavs, hosted on localhost with apache2.

Moreover, if I do not enter the password and leave the dialog open, then error dialogs containing the message "Error while loading %s" where %s is the name of the calendar will appear, one per each time it tries to refresh the calendar. See http://www.hut.fi/~ptvirtan/kontact.png for an example.

Comment 5 Reinhold Kainhofer 2006-11-02 19:06:30 UTC

Reassigning all KOrganizer bug reports and wishes to the newly created 
korganizer-devel mailing list.

Comment 6 Kristian Haugland 2007-04-12 22:31:25 UTC

I'm experiencing the same in kde 3.5.6 installed from FreeBSD(v6.2release) ports  Oddly enough, it seems that the authorization dialog pops up at the reload-interval which is specified in the resource konfiguration, _even_ when automatic reload is set to "never" or "on startup" rather than "regular interval".

Comment 7 Tristan Miller 2008-08-20 20:51:59 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 8 Christoph Cullmann 2024-08-11 18:08:30 UTC

Dear reporter, the resources handling got redone for KF5 and KF6 based PIM applications.

If you still encounter the issues you had in the past, please report them to the current maintained and updated PIM applications you use

Thanks a lot!