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hwchen / keyring-rs

Cross-platform library and utility to manage passwords
Apache License 2.0
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How to remove sensitive data? #143

Closed Jarrodsz closed 1 year ago

Jarrodsz commented 1 year ago

What if implemented this peoject into an app. For example tauri.

Since there is no installer/uninstaller on osx for example how to remove user data from the store after removal of an app?🙏

brotskydotcom commented 1 year ago

Each platform credential service provides its own platform-specific UI that allow users to remove credentials from their store (other than the linux keyring, which removes all credentials at reboot). If you design your application so that it uses a consistent (and distinct) naming convention for credentials it creates (in your case of an app called tauri, for example, you might start each service name with the string tauri-), then it's easy for users to search for credentials that have that naming convention, and remove them manually.

Hope this helps.