On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 23:01 +0100, Mark wrote:
> > > Well i'm the only user on this machine and i simply don't want to get
> > > prompted for a keyring password and i find it close to useless to have
> > > a password for it anyway.
> > >
> > > I simply don't want to get prompted about any password prompts other
> > > than the login one and the root password. all other password prompts
> > > (as far as i can think of) are pointless.
> > >
> > > In my case the keyring-manager is only being used for NetworkManager
> > > to make a wireless network connection.
> >
> > I understand not wanting to be prompted. The fact that this hasn't been
> > fixed (and is a regression from pam_keyring in F7) is a minor annoyance,
> > but I agree it's an annoyance.
> >
> > But that's different from not wanting a password at all. Most GNOME
> > apps that manage passwords (e.g., Evolution) seem to be moving to using
> > the keyring. When more valuable keys are saved there, it doesn't seem
> > unreasonable to protect them even on a machine that you think is fairly
> > secure.
>
> I agree that the usage of a "keyring" can be handy at times but the
> password manager (gnome keyring) should have the option to just work
> without a password prompt at all!
>
> Lets take windows as a example in this case. when i make a wireless
> connection the first time i have to fill in a password for that
> connection (assuming it's password protected) but when i
> reboot/disconnect/whatever so that it needs to connect again it's not
> asking for the password at all and just connects. That behavior is
> what i would like gnome-keyring to have as well.
As I said earlier in the thread (since snipped):
$ rpm -qi gnome-keyring-pam
Name : gnome-keyring-pam Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.20.2 Vendor: Fedora Project
Release : 1.fc8 Build Date: Mon 26 Nov 2007 09:59:24 PM EST
Install Date: Fri 07 Dec 2007 02:58:38 PM EST Build Host: hammer2.fedora.redhat.com
Group : Development/Libraries Source RPM: gnome-keyring-2.20.2-1.fc8.src.rpm
Size : 28760 License: LGPLv2+
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 04 Dec 2007 04:53:11 PM EST, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager : Fedora Project
URL : http://www.gnome.org
Summary : A pam module for unlocking keyrings at login time
Description :
The gnome-keyring-pam package contains a pam module that can
automatically unlock the "login" keyring when the user logs in
and start the keyring daemon.
But it's not working yet.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356931
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250147
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=312531
You could also try pam_keyring. That worked in F7, but is supposed to
have been superseded by gnome-keyring-pam in F8.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
