On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 07:46 -0500, Rick Friedman wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 03:57 +0800, Art Fore wrote: > > I have a problem with evolution where everytine it goes out to check > > email or send email, it asks for the the password eventhough I have the > > remember password box checked. I sent a but report to Ximian and got the > > following back. > > > > "You can work around it this way: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> gnome-keyring-daemon > > GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-qdYsbQ/socket > > GNOME_KEYRING_PID=16304 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> export GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-qdYsbQ/socket > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> export GNOME_KEYRING_PID=16304 > > > > Substitute your socket and pid info in the above commands > > > > Then start evo from the command line and away you go" > > > > > > Then this: > > > > so this sounds like a future FAQ for folks using evo under KDE then. :-/ > > feel free to close as NOTABUG, or to add a workaround for KDE people in > > SuSE > > (wasn't the whole game about making the use of computers easier? ;-) , > > or to > > reassign to gnome-keyring-manager or whatever... :-) > > > > Problem is, the workaround only workas as long as you don't reboot. I > > turn off my computer every work day to save electricity, so this > > workaround is only a short term solution. Is Novell going to fix this or > > does anyone else have a solution so you don't have to do this work > > around evertime you start your computer? If there is no permanent fix, > > guess I will have to migrate to KMail. > > There is a permanent way around this. There is a package available > called, pam_keyring. It is available at: > > http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/pam_keyring-0.0.8-32.i586.rpm > > The description of the package says: > > pam_keyring is a pam module that launches the gnome-keyring-daemon then > tries to unlock a keyring using your login password. > > One other change I had to make... I had to change my displaymanager from > kdm to gdm (I use kde). Now, when I login using gdm, the > gnome-keyring-daemon is automatically started up and the environment is > setup properly. I can now start evolution simply by clicking on it. The > keyring is already unlocked simply by logging in. > > It works great. > Rick
Do not have gdm as an option for the display manager. Art -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
