Re: NetworkManager Won't Save Passwords

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 17:43 -0500, alkos333 wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 12:08 -0500, alkos333 wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Robby Workman <rw rlworkman net> wrote:
> >> > Does it work in a desktop environment (e.g. kde or xfce)?
> >> >
> >> > It's fine here in xfce, fwiw.
> >>
> >> I haven't tried with KDE or xfce - just fluxbox.
> >
> > nm-applet uses gnome-keyring, which needs a bit of setup when used in
> > non-GNOME environments.  If gnome-keyring isn't built with D-Bus
> > support, then you need to start "gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize
> > --login" when your desktop session starts.  This will print out an
> > environment variable that needs to be inserted into the environment of
> > any other program that starts in the session, which looks like this:
> >
> > GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-hSwpKJ
> >
> > this lets programs like nm-applet know where to look for the keyring
> > daemon, which is what actually stores your passwords securely.  If you
> > google around there used to be instructions on how to get KDE to handle
> > running gnome-keyring-daemon manually, I'd assume that whatever session
> > manager is starting up your desktop probably has the same functionality.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Thank you for this explanation, Dan.  This helped me resolve the
> issue.  Now gnome-keyring only prompts for the master password when I
> first start fluxbox and that's it.

Yes, that's expected behavior.  Though normally there's a 'login'
keychain that somehow gets created and is locked with your login
password.  At least in GNOME it gets unlocked automatically for you when
you log in.  Not entirely sure how that works though :)

Dan