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

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