Re: pam-keyring-tool as default?



2006-11-24 klockan 08:28 skrev Baptiste Mille-Mathias:
> On 11/23/06, David Prieto <frandavid100 gmail com> wrote:
> > Okay, many people (me amongst them) are bugged by having to enter their
> > password after logging in in order to connect to their wireless plugin.
> > I haven't tried it, but pam-keyring-tool is supposed to fix the issue.
> >
> > I even found a deb package here
> > (http://frommars.org/2006/10/edgy-and-pam-keyring.html) so I'm curious
> > why it's not included in the repos or even better, why it's not
> > installed by default to avoid us the pain and have a better and smoother
> > Ubuntu experience.

> This is a distribution problem not GNOME, because pam_keyring is not
> part of GNOME Desktop, and the distributor does the integration of
> pam_keyring, so the best thing is to address your concern to the
> ubuntu developpers.
> 
> I remember such feature ask been asked in Ubuntu (take a look on the
> malone website or the wiki) and I don't know for other distro.

Just some additions:

A while ago I struggled with pam-keyring as well:
http://uwstopia.nl/blog/2006/08/password-hell-gdm-ssh-gnome-keyring

I eventually got things to work nicely (I use it every day):
http://uwstopia.nl/blog/2006/08/password-hell-part-ii

My initial Debian package was 'stolen' by the Debian developers and is in
Debian's SVN repository now: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-utopia

  mvrgr, Wouter

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