Re: Big problems with keyring and Seahorse

[Adam Schreiber <sadam gnome org>]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 gmail com> wrote:
> Adam Schreiber wrote:
>> I don't know what to tell you about the inherent brokeness you claim.
>> I'm running everything fine without problem in Jaunty
>
>   What is without a problem? Do you need to give your password to the
> keyring EVERY time you bring up WiFi? This is silly on any computer since
> the password never leaves my computer and can't protect me from a thing.

I'm never prompted for a password to unlock the keyring.  It's
unlocked when I login or unlock the screensaver.  It's not silly in a
situation where it's not your personal laptop and it contains secrets
related to secured networks.

>   As I recall when I first turned on Jaunty it asked for the WiFi password
> and then asked me to make a password for the keyring and I used my first
> name karl as the password. This worked for about a week and then it came up
> with a new demand for my main Ubuntu password. This is where I am now.

That sounds like there may be a bug with auto-creation of the login
keyring or there needs to be a better prompt to make sure the user
enters their login password.  You should file a bug against
gnome-keyring in the PAM component if there is one.

>   Where I work we use Red Hat and there is no keyring there.

I suppose that depends on what version of RH they run and how your
admin has chosen to deploy it.

>>  and was in Ibex
>> too before upgrading.  I also develop in Ubuntu.  If you discover
>> genuine bugs, they should be filed in launchpad to go upstream or in
>> GNOME's bugzilla.
>
>   I do have a bug filed with many others against keyring and seahorse due to
> problems with WiFi. That was how I was lead to learn so many others are
> having similar problems.

Can you provide a link to this bug?