Re: A comment on NetworkManager

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 5/11/06, Robert G. Brown <rgb phy duke edu> wrote:

>
> 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?

rgb lilith|B:1045>dir
DUKE/         hpsetup/   LinkSys_CifTAN/  NETGEAR/  sposton/
Freedomlink/  Latimore/  mpp/             PASSYM/   tunl 32@wireless/
%gconf.xml    linksys/   NCM_Guest/       myessid/
rgb lilith|B:1046>cat myessid/%gconf.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
         <entry name="addresses" mtime="1127738223" type="list"
ltype="string">
         <li type="string">
                 <stringvalue>0:c:41:7b:42:88</stringvalue>
         </li>
         </entry>
         <entry name="auth_method" mtime="1147352804" type="int"
value="2">
         </entry>
         <entry name="key_type" mtime="1147352804" type="int" value="2">
         </entry>
         <entry name="key" mtime="1127738218" type="string">
                 <stringvalue>(IT WAS HERE)</stringvalue>
         </entry>
         <entry name="essid" mtime="1147352804" type="string">
                 <stringvalue>myessid</stringvalue>
         </entry>
         <entry name="timestamp" mtime="1147352804" type="int"
value="1147352804">
         </entry>
</gconf>
rgb lilith |B:1047>rpm -qv NetworkManager
NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.4

I am running 0.6.2 and my %gconf.xml does not contain the key, my key is only in Gnome-Keyring.  This is for WPA, I do not have an access point using WEP to test with.