F11: Spooky network manager

lanas lanas at securenet.net
Fri Oct 16 10:05:30 UTC 2009


Le jeudi, 15 Oct 2009 17:57:39 -0700,
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> a écrit :

> sounds to me like you already stored the AP's WPA key in your stored
> keyring and only need to enter the stored keyring password to handle
> the authentication.

Indeed.

> your problem isn't network manager, it's understanding what keyrings
> do and why they are useful (or in your case, making you crazy).
> 
> As user...
> 
> rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/default.keyring

The only file in that directory is named login.keyring.

Is this keyring similar in concept to the KDE kwallet (I do not use
gnome at all - all users' first sessions are in KDE, gnome never
actually starts) ?  If so, I use kwallet everyday.  The nice think
about it is that there's an initialization phase at the very beginning
in which the user is asked to create a password.

With the keyring what I find is odd, is that it seemingly uses a
password that was never created by the user.  Or, a default password I
wouldn't try, like 'admin'.  I've entered all three passwords that I
created related to the laptop (several times to be sure I haven't made
any typos) and none satisfied the keyring master.  root, user and AP
passwords.  There are no other passwords related to this context.

> that gets you back to the start. Then the next time it asks you for a
> password for your 'keyring' - pay attention to what you enter. I think
> if you use the same password as your login, you don't have ever enter
> it again.

So, should I delete this login.keyring file ?  I'm porceeding with care
here since this laptop is a gift and the birthday is coming near.  I
wouldn't want to screw things up badly at this point.

In parallel I will try Aaron's suggestion and use the plain network
management utility.  I'd sure would like to use the latest technology,
though as it surely is better (sarcasm, a bit).

Cheers.





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