On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 20:17 +0200, Éric Brunet wrote: > So, for all the people unhappy with this keyring fonctionnality, I have > made a patch that restores the old behaviour of storing the network keys > in gconf. You will find the patch at http://tudia.nerim.net/nm/ with a > binary rpm built for fedora.
With all due respect I'm opposed to this patch. Please don't commit it. What we're seeing here are issues with gnome-keyring - issues that are well known (nautilus/gnome-vfs uses gnome-keyring too but I guess few people actually uses e.g. webdav shares) but not yet fixed because gnome-keyring hasn't had much exposure. So my point of view is simply to fix these bugs in gnome-keyring rather than taking the easy way out and leaving precious secret items in the clear. Yea, I know that some people say that gnome-keyring is the wrong approach from the beginning and we should just use encrypted home directories but keep in mind that the "automatically unlock keyring upon login" is equivalent to the "encrypted home directory" problem [1]. Cheers, David [1] : insofar that you need the passphrase to decrypt the home directory _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
