Re: Using Separate Keyring

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 23:41 -0400, Pat Suwalski wrote:
> One of the problems I'm having with getting my nm-edit program to be
> user friendly is that gnome-keyring asks about every single key that the
> user tries to access.

That's odd.  Once you've typed your password in once, it should unlock
the keyring and you shouldn't have to type a password again until the
timeout, or until you log out.  That's how it works for other apps, and
for the nm-applet in particular.  Otherwise it would just be plain
annoying.

Dan

> I notice that all of the keys are just stored in the "default" keyring.
> 
> My question is: would it make sense to store all of the NetworkManager
> keys in a keyring (say, "wireless"). I don't know if gnome-keyring
> supports this, but maybe then an application could authorize access to a
> the whole keyring rather than one entry at a time?
> 
> It would be convenient, but maybe I'm dreaming.
> 
> But then, you guys are all at GUADEC, and maybe something could be
> figured out?
> 
> --Pat
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