Evolution no longer saves password; keyring doesnt' work?

Patrick McCarty patrickmmccarty at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 8 14:40:50 UTC 2008


> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:27:58 +0300
> From: Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: KDE 4.1: Evolution no longer saves password; keyring
> doesn't work?
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1218187678.6447.1.camel at gilboa-home-dev.localdomain>
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>
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 22:39 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Gilboa Davara <gilboad <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> > Does anyone have any idea why evolution no longer saves passwords? Does
>> > it still use gnome-keyring for password storage?
>> > Every time I start evolution I get a two password prompts - one for 
>> > POP3
>> > and the other one for SMTP. (Back in F8, I used to get gnome-keyring
>> > password request and that's it.)
>>
>> Sounds like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453880
>>
>>         Kevin Kofler
>>
>
> Not sure.
> I don't use KDM. (I still use gdm)
>
> But never the less, when I connect to the machine remotely (over SSH)
> and start evolution, it starts gnome-keyring-daemon correctly and the
> passwords are accessible.
>
> - Gilboa
>
I am having the exact same problem with FC9 and Gnome. .

Patrick 




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