Re: NetworkManager keeps asking for secret phrase

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 13:21 -0200, Matias Estrada wrote:
> so you say it doesn't ask for the PAM password every time you reboot ?
> mine keeps asking , so I went for nm-applet manual configuration. Now
> it doesn't show the signal strength :(
My experience is that the keys are stored in the gnome-keyring and you
are asked for a WEP key for example every time you logon. In NM-0.7
it is supposed to be possible to get a machine wide passwd rather than a
user specific passwd but I don't know if that is operational yet.
> 
> 
> On Nov 15, 2007 6:27 AM, Henry Andrew <anhny wmdata com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 14:48 +0200, Firas Swidan, PhD wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I am trying to connect to my WAP wireless network and NetworkManager
> > >> keeps asking for the secret phrase without connecting. Is there
> > anything
> > >> specific that I need to do to stop this and make the connection?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks in advance,
> > >> Firas.
> >
> > >There is some  confusion here. I suspect you mean WEP. If it is asking
> > you >for a
> > >secret phrase it means is is not open to anyone who connects. You need
> > >to know the (usually 40 bit or 104 bit) string that was set up on the
> > >AP. Note that 104 bits is 13 ASCII characters.
> >
> >
> > Isn't it the case that the key for WEP or WPA is stored in the PAM
> > keyring if you have PAM installed?  I run Ubuntu (Gnome) so PAM is
> > already installed, but if you run another distro/desktop and PAM isn't
> > installed or configured then maybe it's not storing the WEP key?  Once
> > stored in PAM, then you only get asked for the PAM passphrase, but in
> > the version of PAM supplied in Ubuntu 7.10 there is a checkbox in the
> > passphrase dialog to always remember the PAM passphrase.
> >
> > --andrew
> >
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