On 10/18/07, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > IMHO gnome-keyring should simply allow passwordless keyrings like KWallet does, > that would solve this problem in a much simpler way for most use cases, and > standard *nix permissions will keep the data just as secure as with pam_keyring > automatically unlocking the keyring for the user owning it anyway. > 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. With pam_gnome_keyring those passwords are still encrypted on disk and without the key, the thief gets nothing. Jon -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
