[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Bug: Password not stored in Keychain

[Tor S. Mehus]

----- Original Message -----
From: TDefriez at cs.com
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 0:00 am
Subject: Re: [missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Bug: Password not stored in
Keychain

> This need to log on each time you connect is no different to 
> Activesync on PC - if the device PocketPC has a password then it 
> will prompt you each time you connect regardless of what you do on 
> the PC end - It's call security. Remember you can connect a 
> PocketPC to any system (with Activesync on) and log on as a guest 
> and see/download everything on the device - a password stop this 
> access.

Yes, that's exactly why I choose to use a password.

> Personally think keychain, which a nice idea for some 
> passwords, is dangerous because it generates an open door.

Well, I'm using it on my home mac. To gain access to the keychain they
either have to break into my house or through both the firewall in the
ADSL rooter and the software firewall in OS X. If someone did that, my
least worry would be that they read the contact list on my PPC.

> Microsoft were sensible here not wishing for unauthorised users to 
> have easy to access the device, they also assummed people could at 
> least remember a simple password.

I do remember the password, but I don't want to have to type it in every
single time I connect the PPC to my home mac. The problem is that
Missing Sync doesn't store the password in the keychain even though I've
checked the checkbox that says 'store password in keychain'. I believe
this is a problem with the Missing Sunc and Keychain, not with Microsoft
being sensible or not.

Tor S. Mehus

> 
> Scott Gruby <sgruby at markspace.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 12:57  PM, Tor S.Mehus wrote:
> >
> >> On tirsdag, aug 5, 2003, at 21:42 Europe/Oslo, Scott Gruby wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 12:38  PM, Tor S.Mehus wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Missing Sync (1.0.1 beta 4 [v11]) doesn't store my PPC 
> password in 
> >>>> the Keychain. I have to reenter it every time I connect.
> >>>
> >>> Make sure you check the checkbox that says store password in 
> keychain.>>
> >> I have already done that. That's why I think it is a bug.
> >>
> >
> >Does it happen with any password you choose on your device? If 
> you open 
> >up the keychain, is there an item called "MissingSync" with an 
> account 
> >name of "Missing Sync Device Password"? Are you using more than 
> one 
> >device?
> >
> >
> >--
> >Scott Gruby