On Thursday 22 January 2009, Rex Dieter wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 22 January 2009 13:58:49 Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Anne Wilson wrote: > >>> On Thursday 22 January 2009 12:44:14 Rex Dieter wrote: > >>>> Neal Becker wrote: > >>>>> Ever since F10, nm-applet is still used on kde and doesn't work > >>>>> correctly. It always asks for passwords. The issue is with talking > >>>>> to gnome-keyring-daemon IIUC. On my desktop, at least, this is still > >>>>> not fixed. > >>>> > >>>> Works for some, not for others. *shrug*. gnome-keyring is a > >>>> tempermental black-box sometimes, it seems. > >>> > >>> It asks for the password every time I connect, on my netbook, and it is > >>> most annoying. What's more, if the connection is dropped it asks for > >>> it again, and then fails to connect. > >>> > >>> Why does it need this at all? My Mandriva laptop manages the > >>> connection without this hassle. > >> > >> Not *needed*, gnome-keyring isn't required, but optional, but then > >> you're guaranteed to have to re-enter passwords on every connect. > > > > I was told to remove the login.keyring from .gnome2/keyrings/ > > > > I did, but when next I started it asked me for my passphrase, then asked > > for a password for the keyring. I'm back to square one. > > Remove keyring, logout, login. If you have gnome-keyring-pam installed > and it's functioning properly, you shouldn't ever have to type a > passphrase. If it does, it (gnome-keyring and/or has a bug somewhere, > (and it's not a kde one). > > Silly question: why are issues/bugs with gnome-keyring being discussed > on a kde list? My guess is that this isn't the best place to get stuff > like that resolved... :) > Because I thought that nm-applet was working for gnome users and that the problem of asking for a password was only on kde.
