Re: gnome-keyring Passwords freely available after login

[Stef Walter <stefw collabora co uk>]

On 2010-12-15 01:30, Yaron Sheffer wrote:
> I would like feedback from the list on the following plan. It's rather
> simplistic, but after all we are buying a small amount of security at
> the price of a small usability degradation.
> 
<snip>
> - Ask for the login password, and use PAM to validate it.

So the password prompted for may not even have anything to do with the
keyring's master password? That's getting so very far away from any form
of real security and starts to look a bit like snake oil, no?

Cheers,

Stef