Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:20:59 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:23:00 -0800 >wes dijo: > >>if you right-click on the keyring, do you get any options around >>setting a password? > >It just pops up the box to enter the password, and if I leave it blank >and then click on OK it

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:23:00 -0800 wes dijo: >if you right-click on the keyring, do you get any options around >setting a password? It just pops up the box to enter the password, and if I leave it blank and then click on OK it gives an error message that I didn't enter the right password. It

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 1:04 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > I could use some suggestions. This gives a high level summary of what keyring does. https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-keyring/ For your purposes it gives the suggestion that has already been proposed here. Give the keyring an empty password and

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread wes
On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 4:57 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > >virbr0 is for virtualization software. virtualbox, vmware, etc. that's > >where the 122 comes from. > > That's interesting. Of course, I spent hours yesterday fiddling with > VirtualBox, and finally got it working. But since last

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:24:09 -0800 wes dijo: >On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:04 AM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:14:19 -0800 >> wes dijo: >> >> >On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:49 PM John Jason Jordan >> >wrote: >> When I ran ifconfig it gave me enx+long-number which was the >>

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread TomasK
On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 11:04 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Using the Latitude I logged into the D-Link DIR860L B1 and noted that > there is a connection at 192.168.1.171 marked 'Latitude,' that must > be > the ethernet. Of course, 192.168.122.1 did not appear. > > So now I have two questions:

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread TomasK
I am not against security, do not get me wrong - This is about freedom to control my computer - that implies that there should be reasonable way to do that and be able to authenticate and/or disable it - simply use it. If the only choice to control ones own audio device is not to install modern

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread wes
On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:04 AM John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:14:19 -0800 > wes dijo: > > >On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:49 PM John Jason Jordan > >wrote: > When I ran ifconfig it gave me enx+long-number which was the > ethernet, and no IP address for it, and it gave me

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:14:19 -0800 wes dijo: >On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:49 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> Apparently Xubuntu is supposed to be using seahorse, but it's not >> installed on my Lenovo laptop with 20.04.2 nor on my new Latitude >> with 21.10. I tried the link, but again it says

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote: security zealots who implemented authentication for just about anything (filesystem, video, sound, usb, applications, etc.) They may be zealots to you, but to many of us they are Lawyer Avoidance Gurus. The number of people waiting to sue

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-13 Thread wes
On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:49 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > Apparently Xubuntu is supposed to be using seahorse, but it's not > installed on my Lenovo laptop with 20.04.2 nor on my new Latitude with > 21.10. I tried the link, but again it says to use seahorse. I can > install seahorse, but must

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-13 Thread John Jason Jordan
Apparently Xubuntu is supposed to be using seahorse, but it's not installed on my Lenovo laptop with 20.04.2 nor on my new Latitude with 21.10. I tried the link, but again it says to use seahorse. I can install seahorse, but must be something else that is causing the problems. And seahorse is

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-13 Thread Brian Stanaland
Ubuntu uses the keyring to store passwords for all kinds of things. It looks like Xubuntu uses seahorse or gnome-keyring as the keyring manager. I'm running Kubuntu so it uses KDE Wallet. Anyway, if you open whichever one Xubuntu uses, there should be either a "login" or "wallet" password stored.

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-13 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Such is life with desktop/server these days. It is pretty annoying that the security zealots who implemented authentication for just about anything (filesystem, video, sound, usb, applications, etc.) on your system did not think/care of this. Anyway, the desktop login dialog unlocks keyring for

[PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-12 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have my desktop computer and my new laptop set up to boot Xubuntu without requiring a login. That part works perfectly, but the instant I try to do anything I get a popup: Authentications required The login keyring did not get unlocked when you logged into your computer