gnome keyring always needs to be unlocked

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Oct 18 20:33:49 UTC 2007


Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.
> 
> You have a point there, but isn't that use case better served by encrypting the 
> entire home directory, not just the keyring/wallet? Many users have plenty of 
> sensitive data outside the keyring/wallet too.

Perhaps but we don't offer an really easy way to do this yet in Fedora. 
Until then the pam module is better than no password at all.

Rahul




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