Re: [patch] first pass at gnome-keyring support, baby.

[Bill Peck <bpeck redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 09:46 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 00:11 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 23:49 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > 
> > > So, I guess my point is that we shouldn't care too much about annoying
> > > gnome-keyring dialogs at this point. Not that it doesn't matter, cause
> > > it does, however all that work is elsewhere really.
> > 
> > Nod.
> > 
> > We can do a lot better, though.  Right now we force an unlock on startup
> > because we parse every password.  Netapplet, for example, only required
> > an unlock when you actually connected to an password-protected network.
> 
> So if we do lazy passphrase requests we'll have to make passphrase
> requests from NMI pretty much like the current "Enter a new WEP key"
> thing.  ie, we can't connect to the access point until we have the
> passphrase/key, and so we need to wait for the user to unlock it.  We'll
> have to set up another condition in the activation stages code to deal
> with this.  I'll look into it when I get some time unless somebody else
> does first.  Its a fairly large architectural/behavioral assumption
> change though, so we need to be careful.
> 

Is there a technical reason why the keyring can't be unlocked by the
login? (Obviously the passwords would have to be the same) I know I'm
thinking in fairy land where we might have single sign on one day.. but
I can dream can't I?

> For the moment, feel free to go ahead and apply the patch to add the
> keyring stuff.
> 
> Dan
> 
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