gnome keyring always needs to be unlocked

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 22:56:19 UTC 2007


On 10/18/07, Douglas McClendon <dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org> wrote:
> It's an interesting question as to what 'doesn't matter'.  I.e. mail
> server passwords and other data and configuration stored in
> ~/.thunderbird.  Or everything stored in ~/.firefox.  Those seem to me
> to be things I'd like encrypted by default as a laptop user, in addition
> to what you described as some special xdg style directory.

And if we had a subset of the home directory that was encrypted by
default... don't we then have applications the option to grow brains
about using such a space wisely as needed?

-jef




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