On Sunday 19 November 2006 11:44, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Sunday 19 November 2006 08:48, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>Anne Wilson wrote: >>> Maybe something that you did copy is the cause of your woes, though. >>> You seem to be the only one with your particular problems, which >>> makes me suspicious of those copies. >> >>I've certainly had problems with kwallet in the past. >>I see from my records that I last met this in January 2006 (was that >> FC-4?) when I wrote: >>------------------------------------- >>Apologies - I was right-clicking on the wallet in the task bar, >>which took me to KDE Wallet Manager, >>which appears to have no password option. >>But when I left click on the icon, >>I get a different window with the same name, >>but with a wallet icon on it. >>When I right-click on this icon, >>I am indeed offered an option to change the password. >> >>I have taken advantage of this to reduce the password to nothing. >>------------------------------------- >> >>I don't know if this is relevant to FC-6, >>as I have had no kwallet problem since then. > >I started it from the kmenu, which brought up the icon adjacent to the >date/time on the taskbar. A right click on that brought up a menu and I >chose configuration. > >checking the enable button unghosted the rest of the options and I chose >to create a pair of .wallet files. And while it went thru the motions, > I don't believe they were created as they didn't show up when selecting > the default wallet for that function. I've just prowled thru the .kde > tree and found a .kde/share/apps/kwallet/kwallet.kwl file, 60 bytes of > binary data, and its dated about 50 hours ago when it last > crashed/rebooted the box. > >There is also a .kde/share/config/kwalletrc, which looks like this: >------------- >[Wallet] >Close When Idle=false >Close on Screensaver=false >Default Wallet= >Enabled=false >First Use=false >Idle Timeout=10 >Launch Manager=true >Leave Manager Open=false >Leave Open=false >Local Wallet= >Prompt on Open=false >Use One Wallet=false >-------------- >and its dated 5 minutes ago when I was fooling with it and tried to > create a wallet file per the two choices shown. I may set First > Use=true just for grins & restart it. Here goes... No difference, it > still doesn't create the wallet. And nothing is being logged about it >in /var/log/secure, nada, zip. And running it did not cancel the First >Use=true in that kwalletrc. > >I've started an updatedb session and when its done I'll see if locate > can find the three wallets I tried to create. No, nothing by those names exists on the system. > In the meantime, should > I nuke both of those and let it create new ones? > >-- >Cheers, Gene >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >-Ed Howdershelt (Author) >Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above >message by Gene Heskett are: >Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
