On Mon, May 7, 2007 8:17 pm, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On 07/05/07, Chris AKA personthingy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > One assumes logging > into the network is a normal part of the days start up >> procedure? >> :) > > It's only the normal part of the procedure for a mobile machine that > might be in several different networks throughout its life, or > possibly a shared machine that needs to be on different networks for > different people. > > A static machine probably can just sign up to the network once per > boot, which is not the same as when a user logs in. In this case you > can put the wireless options directly into /etc/network/interfaces > (see an example on the Voyage wiki site, which is a type of Debian > http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=how_do_i_get_bcm43xx_working_with_wpa > ) > > The gnome-network-manager is inherently a per-user desktop tool. I > have an Ubuntu machine here set up the same way; every time the user > logs in the keyring needs to have an additional password. I can see > why it's like that, but OS X has a directly similar "keyring" feature, > that doesn't ask for an additional password - because it's hooked up > to the same authentication as the login process itself. > > The desktop tool for network management is quite nice and visible, but > the keychain needs to integrate better with the login :-)
not forgetting that many people these days are doing auto login, which might circumvent some protection provided by the extra password required for the keyring. > > -- Nick Rout
