Re: keyring manager

[Jon Nettleton <jon nettleton gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 07:06 -0700, Cindy wrote:
> 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,

Right now you can have your keyring unlocked at login using pam_keyring.
Most the distributions have it packaged at this point.  If you have
questions about it you can contact me off the list ( I am the current
maintainer ).

Jon

> 
> --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
> >
> >
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