Re: Wireless Keys stored unencrypted?

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

Hi


On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com> wrote:
> While doing some research I noticed that wireless keys are located
> unencrypted in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts  It even does this when
> I set the wireless to not be a system-connection.   It used to be that
> wireless keys were stored in the keyring which seems much safer to me
> than storing them locally unencrypted.

interesting, I am not an nm developer but this seems to stem from keyfile plugin
and relies on file selinux label/permission for protection.

I also do not  see an option to not save the password.


>
> Thank you!
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