Re: keyring manager

[Cindy <cindy digitalramble com>]

That's excellent -- all I want is not to be futzing with entering a
password in that keyring, however that is implemented.  When is this
planned to be released?

--Cindy

On 3/15/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> 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.
>
> Dan