Re: keyring manager

[Jon Nettleton <jon nettleton gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 08:11 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 23:29 -0700, Cindy wrote:
> > I'm sure this has been asked before.  Are there any plans to make
> > Network Manager's use of the keyring optional?  I understand the
> > security issues, and certainly NM should default to using the keyring.
> >  But an option to turn it off would, I'm sure, be appreciated by many.
> 
> Nope!  As you say, that's a security issue.  Instead you'll be able to
> "publish" a configuration to system settings so that it's available to
> everyone on the system (or just you if it's single-user) and therefore
> available for NetworkManager to use when the computer boots up, not just
> when you log in.

Random curiosity.  Waht is the planned mechanism for storing the
published WEP/WPA keys?  I haven't found any documentation online, other
than the preferences are getting published in the main gconf repo.

Jon

> 
> Dan
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