kwallet vs kmail, will somebody please shoot one of them?

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 20:42 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 19 November 2006 20:18, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday 19 November 2006 15:04, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >On Sunday 19 November 2006 19:58, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >> >Yes, I'd get rid of the old ones, but do use kwalletmanager to do it
> > >> > (from Control Center).
> > >>
> > >> Yes, but I don't have any old wallets laying around for it to delete.
> > >>
> > >> And it apparently cannot create one either.  Next suggestion coaches?
> > >
> > >Permissions?  Look at ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet and its content.
> > >
> > >Anne
> >
> > Well, ~ for me is /root, so
> >
> > [root at coyote config]# ls -l ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet
> > total 8
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 Nov 17 09:13 kdewallet.kwl
> >
> > Is this supposed to be a text file?  It is not...
> 
> No, it wouldn't be very secure if it was, would it? :-)
> 
> You're confusing me, Gene.  Are you doing everything from a root login, rather 
> than as Gene with su when necessary?
----
yes, he is running GUI login and applications, etc. as root - despite
admonitions.

and he suggests that this works for him, except of course, when it
doesn't work for him.

Craig