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Changes for version 0.27 - 2012-11-11

  • Support for loading OSXKeychain backend on Mac OS/X (darwin) platform.
  • Added standalone non-trivial example.
  • get_keyring is exported by default.
  • Improved keyring selection code structure (introducing concept of scoring etc)..
  • Handling PASSWD_KEYRING_AUTO_FORBID and PASSWD_KEYRING_AUTO_PREFER environment variables.
  • Handling PASSWD_KEYRING_AUTO_DEBUG variable, if it is set, we emit some diagnostics of what we pick.
  • Terminology fixes in docs and param names (realm instead of service/domain)
  • Recommended modules are picked according to the current platform.

Modules

interface to secure password storage(s)