Commit 944d56ff authored by Christos Froussios's avatar Christos Froussios Committed by Commit Bot

Update the FAQ: storing passwords on Linux

The previous description presumed parity between Mac and Linux, which
has not yet been implemented.

Change-Id: I1867d3cfe32cc61c277024921f504acf472eee35
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/874450Reviewed-by: default avatarVaclav Brozek <vabr@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Lawrence <elawrence@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Christos Froussios <cfroussios@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#530470}
parent ddb183db
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credentials in "Login Data" in the Chrome users profile directory, but
encrypted on disk with a key that is then stored in the user's Keychain.
See [Issue 466638](https://crbug.com/466638) for further explanation.
* On Linux, credentials are stored in an encrypted database, and the password
to decrypt the contents of that database are stored in KWallet or Gnome
Keyring. (See [Issue 602624](https://crbug.com/602624).)
* On Linux, credentials are stored into Gnome-Keyring or KWallet, depending
on the environment. On environments which don't ship with Gnome-Keyring
or KWallet, the password is stored into "Login Data" in an unprotected
format.
* On iOS, passwords are currently stored directly in the iOS Keychain and
referenced from the rest of the metadata stored in a separate DB. The plan
there is to just store them in plain text in the DB, because iOS gives
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