Sean (@drinkybird.net)

Zandronum support for using libsecret to save auth credentials For a while, Zandronum has supported saving credentials for its account system to the system keyring using the `login_add` command, so you don’t have to keep typing your password into the console or storing it plaintext in your configuration file. This was only supported on Windows since the feature was first added, but I recently added support for libsecret, so this feature can now be used on Linux starting with Zandronum 3.3. This means you can now store your auth passwords in KDE Wallet1, GNOME Keyring, KeepassXC, or any other Secret Service implementation. You can also use `login_default_user` to set a default username to use, reducing the effort of logging in to just typing `login`. Naturally, to use this feature you will need to build Zandronum with libsecret - simply install the relevant package and build, and it should just work. The feature is optional, so similar to other dependencies like GTK, if it’s not found it will silently be disabled. It’s already available in the CI builds, and should be enabled whenever we start releasing official testing builds for 3.3, and eventually and inevitably, the release builds. A small bit of refactoring was also done to facilitate this, so it should be easier to add other storage backends in the future. Specifically, macOS doesn’t have support for this feature yet… For demonstration purposes, here’s a couple of screenshots of this in action: under KDE Plasma under MATE, using GNOME Keyring 1. If the Secret Storage implementation is even called KDE Wallet? KDE appears to be in a sort of transition period towards being Secret Service-native. ↩ https://drinkybird.net/2025/09/zandronum-libsecret/