automatic unlocking of keyring

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Fri Nov 30 21:43:02 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 16:25 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:38 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > As some may remember, we turned automatic unlocking of
> > keyrings at login time off at a late time in the F8 schedule,
> > since it was not working properly with our pam configuration.
> > 
> > pam has meanwhile gained a new feature that will hopefully 
> > allow this to work reliably (substack). I have built 
> > gdm-2.21.2-0.2007.11.20.4.fc9 and gnome-keyring-2.20.2-2.fc9
> > in rawhide with this turned on.
> > 
> > Please try it and tell me if it works for you.
> 
> Nice work. Almost there:
> 
>  1. Logging in via fingerprint auth; doesn't work.. but that's expected

That'll work once you engrave your password on your fingertip, I guess.

>  2. Logging in via password; unlocking keyring works fine
> 
>  3. Change password
> 
>  4. Logging in via password; doesn't unlock keyring

This would work if we added gnome-keyring support to /etc/pam.d/passwd.
The bug against authconfig to do that is still open:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250147









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