Matt Zimmerman [2009-03-24 11:07 +0000]: > I installed with auto-login enabled, and when I connected to a WPA network, > I was prompted for a password to create the default keyring. > > Is this because I chose auto-login?
Yes, it is. NM (as well as Evolution, seahorse, and other bits) use gnome-keyring to store passwords. gnome-keyring is encrypted with a keyring password. We use pam-keyring to keep the PAM and gnome-keyring passwords synchronized, but obviously with auto-login, PAM does not know your password and thus gnome-keyring has to ask. > Is there any way to avoid this awkward prompt? Tricky. I'm not very fond of disabling the keyring password entirely in such cases and thus store passwords unencrypted; that might be acceptable for wifi passwords, but much less so for SSH ones. This cries for a more fundamental design discussion about single-user vs. multi-user use cases, account management, and using gnome-keyring. I don't think we can sensibly change this still for Jaunty. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
