Hi Matthew; And thanks. I thought I was going nuts. On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 15:58 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 13:29 -0500, William Case wrote: [snip] > If you save passwords to your mailboxes, etc., in Evo, they are stored > on your keyring. To get access to them, you must authenticate to your > keyring. There's no getting around that. (NetworkManager stores your > wireless keys on your keyring too, so you have to authenticate to log > onto a wireless network as well. But you should only need to do it once > per login.) > > There is a package gnome-keyring-pam that is supposed to automatically > unlock your keyring if the keyring and login passwords are the same, but > it doesn't work yet. Check Bugzilla for that component. > N.B. > gnome-keyring-pam replaced pam-keyring, which used to work in F7 (if > properly set up), but I haven't tried to get it working in F8. There are plugins for other programs -- but not Evo. I gather that the reason then that I am not being asked for a password as another 'user' is because those other 'users' don't have a key ring. -- Regards Bill
