https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445841

--- Comment #1 from Ivan Čukić <ivan.cu...@kde.org> ---
It could be done for some backends, but not all support password changing. For
example, cryfs doesn't seem to support it.

What is important to note is that changing the password (in general) doesn't
re-encrypt the data, so if an attacker has your old encfs/cryfs/... config file
and the old password, it is likely that they would be able to access newly
encrypted data as well. (didn't test this with the Vault-supported encryption
schemes, but this is often the case).

If Vaults get this feature, it will need a wall-of-text explaining what
changing the password doe not defend against.

For the time being, and a better practice in general is to create a new vault,
move the data, delete the old vault.

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