Re: gnome keyring always needs to be unlocked

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > That is absolutely 100% not true.  If someone steals your laptop and
> > you have a passwordless keyring like in KWallet, your passwords are
> > pretty much stolen.  Boot off a bootable cd mount the filesystem,
> > done.
>
> You have a point there, but isn't that use case better served by encrypting the 
> entire home directory, not just the keyring/wallet? Many users have plenty of 
> sensitive data outside the keyring/wallet too.

Perhaps but we don't offer an really easy way to do this yet in Fedora. 
Until then the pam module is better than no password at all.

Rahul