John Karr on 9 Sep 2009 12:15:55 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] How can I make my wifi manager just remember passwords without a kwallet or keyring?


I took Art's advice and tried wicd, which is working great so far and isn't
tied to a desktop. I'm convinced that its much better than the KDE wifi
manager. That's before we consider that both the wifi managers from KDE and
Gnome are dependent on their wallet/keyring services. Kwallet is broken,
keyring is a dependency that should not exist. 


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Lee Marzke
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 12:45 PM
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
Cc: brainbuz@brainbuz.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] How can I make my wifi manager just remember passwords
without a kwallet or keyring?

sean finney wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:23:03PM -0400, John Karr wrote:
>   
>> Neither solution is acceptable. So how does one get wifi manager to 
>> remember passwords without Kwallet running? Swiching to gnome's wifi 
>> manager just trades kwallet for gnome keyring. When I set up a wifi 
>> connection I want my wifi manager to just remember the key next time I
want to connect, period.
>>     
>
> in gnome, you can set the keyring to the same password as your login 
> password, which makes it automatically opened when you login (i forget 
> if there's more to it than that, it was a long time ago i got around 
> to doing this).  then you don't need to enter a password to connect to 
> known wireless networks.
>
>
>   
I believe that all the recent installs of  UBuntu, KBuntu, Xubuntu  work
this way,  I
don't remember any password required by network Manager,    but the WiFi
authentication was
stored per user - so other users had to re-authenticate.

Lee

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