On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 16:18 -0500, William Case wrote:
> 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.
Once your package is committed to storing passwords on the keyring, this
is a PAM issue, not an application issue.
Firefox/Thunderbird don't use the keyring AFAIK. I think Evo only
started doing this recently.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
