NetworkManager - Can not store wireless pass phrase

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On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 15:49 +0200, Uwe Kiewel wrote:
>> Julian Aloofi wrote:
>> > In general it should save your password automatically (I assume you use
>> > Fedora 10).
>>
>> Oh, my fault: It's Rawhide :-)
>>
>> > Maybe you should delete your WLAN from the connection list,
>> > connect, enter your password and just reboot and see whether it worked
>> > automatically.
>>
>> I have had also this idea, but it didn't help.
>
> Did you ever deny nm-applet or nm-connection-editor access to the Gnome
> Keyring?  Run 'gnome-keyring-manager' or 'seahorse' ('yum install
> gnome-keyring-manager seahorse' if you don't have them installed) and
> see if nm-applet and nm-connection-editor has access to the key in
> question.
>
> If all else fails, you can use the atom-bomb approach and 'rm -rf
> ~/.gnome2/keyrings' and then try to set the passphrase in
> nm-connection-editor again.
>
> Dan
>
>
>>
>> Thnaks,
>>       Uwe
>>
>> >
>> > Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2009, 21:14 +0200 schrieb Uwe Kiewel:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I cannot store the pass phrase for my wireless lan in NetworkManager.
>> >>
>> >> Procedure:
>> >> - left click on NM icon
>> >> - selecting my wireless lan
>> >> - entering my pass phrase
>> >> - connect successful
>> >>
>> >> Later:
>> >> - right click on NM icon
>> >> - edit connection -> wireless
>> >> - selecting my connection -> Edit -> wireless security
>> >> - box for pass phrase is empty
>> >> - entering my pass phrase
>> >> - clicking apply
>> >> - closing window
>> >>
>> >> Repeating this procedure, the in wireless security, there is no pass
>> >> phase :-(
>> >>
>> >> Is this a bug or is there an error in my procedure?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>    Uwe
>> >>
>>
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Seems to be related to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453880 (I´ve had the same
issue in Rawhide - my wireless passphrases was not saved by
nm-applet).

I *just* solved the problem by following the steps described by Rex
Dieter (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453880#c11) in
that bugreport except for installing gnome-keyring-manager since it
seems to be gone in Rawhide.

In short, I removed ~/gnome2/keyrings and installed gnome-keyring-pam
and did a logout / login. Now nm-applet is no longer prompting me for
a passphrase. It also looks like it´s saved in the config now.

-- 
Eelko Berkenpies
http://blog.berkenpies.nl/