Re: Keeping passwords secure
- From: "Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>
- To: ardoRic <ardoric gmail com>
- Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Keeping passwords secure
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:47:36 -0400
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:23 PM, ardoRic <ardoric gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since the begginning that i noticed that NetworkManager uses
> Gnome-Keyring to keep wireless WEP and WPA keys. I applaud that.
>
> However I always found it strange that in my gnome-keyring there are
> no entries for my passwords on WPA Enterprise networks (eduroam, for
> example). The other day i found out that they are stored in plain text
> on gconf. Is there any technical reason for this? Any reason why WPA
> Enterprise credentials can't be stored safely in keyring?
>
> I actually care more about my eduroam credentials than i do about
> PSK's and such.
>
> If there is no serious reason for this behavior, i would like to ask
> that it gets changed.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ricardo Silva
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I think this is changed in 0.6.6 and 0.7.x Are you still running 0.6.5?
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