Cross-platform FdoSecrets?

[michaelk83]

Summary

On Linux, the FdoSecrets integration works by exposing an interface on DBus. It is disabled on MacOS and Windows. However, it's technically possible to install DBus on MacOS (ref1, ref2) and may be possible to install on Windows WSL (ref3, ref4, ref5). Would it be possible to enable FdoSecrets under those circumstances?

I suppose Windows WSL would still count as "Linux" this purpose?

Context

This could be useful for scripting and automation tasks, as I noted in #1483 (comment).

@Aetf , thoughts?

[Aetf]

Hmm, there are a few places in the code assuming a Linux environment (mostly getting PID from the client). Also, I can't test it on those OSes.

But PRs that make the code more portable in general are welcome.

[droidmonkey]

You run keepassxc through WSL, done. What would you talk to on macOS? There would need to be fdosecrets aware consumers installed. This is a "won't implement" for me.

[michaelk83]

What would you talk to on macOS?

Assuming the use case is scripting, then whatever scripts the users write. I assume one can install libsecret and python on MacOS, but even if not, such scripts can use the FdoSecrets DBus interface directly (along with KPXC's main DBus interface).

Anyway, this was more of a "crazy thought" / what-if.

[droidmonkey]

You're much better off using keepassxc-cli in scripts