Re: password keyring for vpn - kde

[Terry <td3201 gmail com>]

On 1/6/06, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 gmail com> wrote:
> On Friday 06 January 2006 11:01 am, Will Stephenson wrote:
> > On Friday 06 January 2006 16:53, Robert Love wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 09:51 -0600, Terry wrote:
> > > > Is there a service that needs to run for this to work?  Under KDE, I
> > > > get a prompt to save the passwords but get this error:
> > >
> > > gnome-keyring.
> >
> > Robert, can you explain how to start gnome-keyring-daemon outside of a
> > gnome session such that gnome apps can access it?  As I understand the
> > gnome-session binary, it starts gnome-keyring-daemon and then exports the
> > GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET and GNOME_KEYRING_PID that gkd outputs, then apps read
> > these to find out where to talk to the daemon.  I tried doing this by hand
> > but it didn't work.
> >
> > Terry: we're working on a native KDE applet, watch this space.
> >
>
> In .kde/env:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
>
> # gnome keyring daemon
> # set env vars, much like ssh-agent
> eval `gnome-keyring-daemon`
> export GNOME_KEYRING_PID GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET
> set | grep GNOME
>
> # start-custom.sh
>
> In .kde/shutdown:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
>
> # kill any gnome keyring daemons that we were using
> if [ -n "$GNOME_KEYRING_PID" ]; then
>    echo killing gnome-keyring-damon $GNOME_KEYRING_PID
>    kill $GNOME_KEYRING_PID
> fi
> _______________________________________________

You would then have links to these scripts in .kde/Autostart/ ?