aebrahim / pidgin-wincred

Integrate pidgin and the credential manager on windows

pidgin-wincred

Pidgin usually stores passwords as plaintext, which is generally considered a poor idea. This plugin uses the Windows Credential Manger to log passwords, which in theory only allows the user who wrote the credentials to read them back. Many would argue this is a more secure form of password storage.

This plugin has primarily been tested on Windows 7 and 10, but some users have also reported success with Windows XP. Feedback (by posting issues to the tracker) would be helpful.

Installation Instructions

Download the zip file for the latest version from the releases page. Unzip the file, and copy the pidgin-wincred.dll file to the pidgin plugin directly (usually %APPDATA%\.purple\plugins).

Build-it-yourself Instructions

To build the plugin from source manually, you will need to use the 32 bit version of the mingw-w64 compiler and follow the instructions for building pidgin on windows. The easiest way to do this is to copy and paste from .travis.yml to set up your build environment.

The travis build should also cross-compile a working plugin. It is set to deploy on tagged releases on my repository with my key, so these values should be modified in your repository's .travis.yml file if you want to use this.

pidgin-wincred's Issues

Binaries

Can you provide newer binaries? I only see 0.4 on the deprecated google code site.
thx

0.6 binary

Is there a special reason you are not offering 0.6 as a binary download ?
Thanks

Logs out of Steam

I use the Steam Mobile third party plugin but with wincred enabled, it constantly logs me off and asks for the password even when it's set to be saved. It defeats the purpose of the plugin.

Pidgin doesn't start if Telegram plugin is installed

Unfortunately this plugin causes pidgin to crash on start if using the Telegram plugin. Perhaps there is an easy solution to fixing this? If not, oh well thanks for looking into it :)

SkypeWeb plugin password's seems to be partially forgotten

Steps to reproduce it:

1 - Set up you pidgin client with skypeweb plugin and pidgin-wincred and configure your account
2 - Go to Accounts -> "Your Skype account" -> Disable
3 - Re-Enable that skype account again
4 - Bump It asks for your password again

Hi i'm using Pidgin 2.10.12, skypeweb plugin v1.1 and v0.5 of this plugin. Other than that i didn't found any issues....Thanks 4 this great plugin

Logs out of discord

It logs me out of discord at random.