Re: [Evolution] login password

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 22:28 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote: 
> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 23:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 21:47 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote:
> > > Why does Evolution need my login password?  I have never seen any other
> > > application require such a thing, certainly not a mail client.
> > It doesn't. It requires the password to your Gnome keyring, which is
> > where is keeps your mail account passwords. Some people make the keyring
> > password the same as the login password, which IIRC is detected by the
> > Gnome system as a special case. Others don't do this.
> Why does it keep my mail account password in the Gnome keyring? No other
> application seems to require the password to my Gnome keyring.

?? Dozens of applications use the GNOME keyring; included Nautilus.

Install the excellent / awesome / amazing application known as
"Seahorse" for a very convenient / easy-to-use / well-designed interface
to your key ring and other password and encryption related tools.

<http://live.gnome.org/Seahorse>?

It is probably packaged for your distribution.

The keyring and Seahorse are your friends.

Did I mention that Seahorse rocks?  If not, it does.  Using things like
GPG/PGP was awfully hackish until Seahorse rode triumphantly onto the
battlefield.  I love that application.  

There are even gedit plugins to easily encrypt / decrypt sections of a
text file via a right-click.  Sweet.