gnome keyring password - optional?

Msquared sub1.fedoralist at msquared.id.au
Mon Apr 4 08:54:24 UTC 2005


On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:29:53PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

> > I have some Windows machines on my network, and for some obscure
> > reason they ask me for a username and password in nautilus when I
> > access them.  Another Windows machine accessing them doesn't have to
> > supply a password (or perhaps the password is hardcoded in Windows).
> > To access the Windows share I just use the username Guest and the
> > password Guest.
> 
> Why can't gnome also have "Guest" hardcoded into itself, and if that
> fails, ask the user?

To be honest, I don't know if that's defined behaviour, a common
conventions, or just happens to work here on my network.

It would still be nice to either specify an empty password for the
keyring, or that some passwords don't require the keyring password to
access.

Regards, Msquared...




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