Re: A comment on NetworkManager

[Jon Escombe <lists dresco co uk>]

Robert G. Brown wrote:
> This is a (smart) user choice, of course, but many users or new account
> programs might create the tree 755 or whatever.  And besides, as long as
> it is stored even 700 in cleartext, using a "decryption" step via the
> keyring is just silly.  Either store it encrypted (only) or don't bother
> encrypting it.  I'm inclined toward having the choice -- a userspace 700
> DEFAULT security level on this part of the .gconf tree or at least all
> files containing keys OR not storing the keys there at all and using
> strict encryption.

Must admit I'm puzzled by these posts.. I've checked the %gconf.xml 
files for all the WEP networks I've connected to, and there's no key in 
any of them. Could you have left-overs from an old version?

That said, my private key password (for a WPA2 network) is stored in the 
.xml file rather than the keyring ;), but doubtless it'll be stored 
somewhere better in due course..

Regards,
Jon.