NM and TKIP

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 22 June 2009 14:25:44 Mike Burger wrote:
> > On Friday 19 June 2009 23:55:43 Craig White wrote:
> >> I think if you create keyrings in GNOME (evolution, NM, other stuff)
> >> that use the same password as your login, most of this stuff just works
> >> automatically, even if you use KDE.
> >
> > Hmm - that could be the difference, then.  I use a more secure password
> > for
> > TKIP than for my local login.
>
> Not quite the same thing, Anne.  The password he's referring to is the
> keyring app, not the actual TKIP key.  The TKIP key would be stored in the
> keyring app...the password that he and I refer to is for the keyring app,
> itself.  He's suggesting that if your login password and your password for
> the keyring app are the same, then you may not be prompted for the keyring
> password.
>
> Might you have been prompted, Anne, to save the key in the keyring, but
> opted not to do so, earlier on when you first set up the wireless
> networking on your system?
>
It's highly unlikely, Mike.  I'm a kde user, and I use kwallet heavily.  In 
the first place, I'm pretty sure that I was never asked about saving this key 
in my wallet, but even if I was, I would have saved it, and the wallet is 
always open throughout any session - I set it to stay open until I log out - 
so it would provide the key if it knew it.

The only place I have set the key is in the dialog that you get for network 
settings, to the best of my knowledge, part of NM.  That still retains the key 
- but it doesn't get used.

Anne
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