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Mr. Pink

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Password for GUI
« on: June 12, 2006, 04:19:27 PM »
Hey,

first i want to say thank you for the great program.

One think i would like to have is the possibility to passwort protect the amule gui.
You specify a password in the settings and then everytime you want to show
the gui by clicking on the taskbar icon it aks for that password.

I dont like it when some friends surfing the internet on my pc look at my
current downloads.

I saw this feature on the bittorrent client Azureus first and i was always
disappointed that on eMule there is no such feature.

Maybe you can add this to aMule  :)
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Re: Password for GUI
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2006, 05:25:00 PM »
maybe only save the pass if clicked "save password" in a checkbox
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Re: Password for GUI
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2006, 10:27:08 AM »
I'm not sure of how good such a feature is, if you don't want someone look at your download, use daemon instead. Windows' users behavior is too much "gui oriented" :(.
Amule daemon is lower ressource consumer and perfect to hide what you do for everyone.
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Re: Password for GUI
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2006, 10:51:47 AM »
well JusTiCe8 look like you did not understand ;)

he uses the daemon, but if you use the remote-gui it stores teh EC-Password, which you need to connect by default

so whenever someone else uses your computer, and uses teh remote-gui he can login...

sure you can also use the webserver and amulcmd, but remote-gui is also nice to still have this *mule feeling
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Re: Password for GUI
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2006, 01:34:10 PM »
No. stefan. Read again.
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Re: Password for GUI
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2006, 02:23:15 PM »
I read that on "gui restore" he wants a password for showing the gui,
but atm you only have a button for "save settings" which saves the IP/Port and the password
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Re: Password for GUI
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2006, 03:12:13 PM »
So actually i use the normal amule-gui with a gnome desktop on my debian machine.

To use the deamon together with the remote-gui over localhost would be an idea.
But its the same problem there with the remote gui, everybody could open the remote-gui
to see what the deamon is downloading.
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Re: Password for GUI
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2006, 08:03:26 PM »
Not really, unless you give everybody the password to connect to the daemon, or if you store the password on a connect. If you don't do that, the remote-GUI will ask you the password every time you start it.

However, there is one drawback to this: The daemon - remote-GUI combination does not have all the features that the monolith has, like statistics and comment fields. In my opinion these are minor things, but you have to decide for yourself.
« Last Edit: June 13, 2006, 08:05:03 PM by vdb »
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Re: Password for GUI
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2006, 08:34:17 AM »
Maybe you should try to solve it from another perspective. I don't think it is amule's responsibility to protect itself from people that have access to your computer and your running session if you don't completely trust them. No idea about gnome, but kde has the possibility to lock the current session and start a new one (as another user). This might be more of what you are looking for.
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