NetworkManager connection to encrypted Wireless Network
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 13 02:09:08 UTC 2008
--- On Wed, 11/12/08, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> From: Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: NetworkManager connection to encrypted Wireless Network
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 6:03 PM
> On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 17:57 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > Thank you in advance for all your
> help/suggestions/advice.
>
> The gnome keyring is a secure storage of various
> passphrases that you
> may use during your session. It typically has one password
> to unlock
> the key, and then other passphrases can be fetched from the
> keyring for
> various applications. Quite often, the keyring has the
> same password as
> your login password, but this isn't required (nor
> should it be
> encouraged).
>
> Now, if you've forgotten your gnome keyring password,
> that's going to be
> fun to recover. The easiest thing to do is remove the
> existing keyring
> so that upon next session you get the opportunity to create
> a new
> keyring (and this time set it to a password you remember).
> To do this,
> remove the files in .gnome2/keyrings/ and log back into
> gnome.
>
> --
> Jesse Keating
> Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
> identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
> --
Thank you very much,
I will give it a try tomorrow. Upon success/failure, I will hopefully report back.
Regards,
Antonio
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