On 19/05/11 09:55, Misha Shnurapet wrote: > Hi. > > I asked this question in NetworkManager mailing list, but everyone there > seems to be busy, so I decided to ask here. > > I run torrents on my notebook. On an electricity outage NetworkManager starts > asking for a new password, so when I'm not around and the light goes back on > (powering up the WLAN router), it just stands stalled with the dialog open. > > Is there a way to tell NM not to ask for a new password ever? Because I use a > 63-symbol passphrase once set up on all the (two) machines so to forget about > it. > > Thanks! > > NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.4-1.fc14.x86_64 > > -- > Best regards, > Misha Shnurapet, Fedora Project Contributor > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shnurapet > shnurapet AT fedoraproject.org, GPG: 00217306
As far as i can tell there is no easy, if any, solution that would not breach the security of your 63-symbol pass phrase. In my experience using knetworkmanager a password is required for each secure Wireless connection and for security these are stored in a secure encrypted area, (kwallet in my case), which needs just a single password for access. Hence a password is always required for wireless access to reconnect after a power out. This is not required for wired connections, so unless you can use some wired connection that restarts on power up to do the torrent downloads, you have little choice, without breaching the security provided by your pass phrase, but to accept the problem. From what I can gather you use long random pass phrases for any external available access which I heartily recommend. Nearly all security breaches are made because it's easy to guess pass phrases that relate to the person who created it. Regards cpp4ever -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
