The default chat client in Karmic, the next Ubuntu release, is empathy, and it forces you to save all passwords.
Complain here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ce/empathy/+bug/118800
(Or let me know if you have a better idea.)
Update: This is now marked high priority for the Karmic release, so I expect it to get fixed.
Complain here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour
(Or let me know if you have a better idea.)
Update: This is now marked high priority for the Karmic release, so I expect it to get fixed.
write a cron script that runs every day and scrubs it?
it might be interesting to see if it works if you scrub the password file immediately after it saves them. mmm.
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Just to note, one of the people commenting on that bug report mentioned this: It's odd, given that you can clear out the password after the account has been created...but then it doesn't prompt you for one and won't connect.