FC-6 NetworkManager needs some love

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 10:50:23 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 11:12 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> Taken holistically, it's a very broken design. The WEP key it's asking
> for is a system-wide thing; in fact it's even stored in the standard
> network configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-eth1 --
> yet
> although NetworkManager obeys _some_ of the standard network
> configuration, it ignores the key, and insists on asking mere _users_
> about it. And then demands a password before using it. Repeatedly.
> 
> That's just crap.

Well, harsh, but I agree. Pull the latest 2-18 code from gnome svn and
that defaults to not locking the keyring.

Richard.





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