Re: account management standard

[rir]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question. What I get out of your post:

• maintain site, id, password info
• login with this info
• change password

I use Galeon on Linux as a browser and it does the first two. When I reach a password page I generally just need to hit enter. I do not see the change password functionality as amenable to automation--there are too many varying security situations. (I mean in a practical sense as a lone user/client surfing the web.)

There has been some noise about Linux browsers using some XML (iirc) to make bookmark files portable between browsers, I hope that password files are not far behind.

I have just recently had cause to use Microsoft's XP browser; I was surprised at the lack of convenience features like finding www.perlmonks.org when you type perlmonks. Is it also backward regarding passwords?

Be well,
rir

[Henri Icarus]

Well, actually the thing I care about most is #3! Yes browsers will keep passwords for various web-sites and remember form values here and there, but what I was interested in is the ability to manage those accounts with a client side protocol.