NetworkManager & keyring

Marius Andreiana mandreiana.lists at gmail.com
Sat Sep 19 09:47:08 UTC 2009


>> Tried a restart, same question. Tried to add another network
>> connection to get my net working, but still NM wants to know the
>> default keyring password. I want that too :) Finally I tried my
>> initial account password used on install (which I changed a few days
>> later), that was it!
>
> That means there was a problem with your installation. Changing the
> user's password is supposed to change the default GNOME keyring password
> to match as well.
>
> in /etc/pam.d/passwd:
> -password   optional    pam_gnome_keyring.so
>
> So, how did you change your password?
as root: passwd user

So why not ask (or hint about) your account password, rather than
default keyring password?

>> Could this behaviour be changed to: when a keyring needs to be setup,
>> prompt user with a dialog explaining what a keyring is and ask for a
>> password.
>
> Huh.


-- 
Marius Andreiana




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