gnome keyring password - optional?

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Sat Apr 2 10:29:53 UTC 2005


fre, 01.04.2005 kl. 17.20 skrev Msquared:
> Is it possible to set an empty password on my gnome keyring?
> 
> I know it's a security risk, but here's my rationale:
> 
> 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?

> The point is that the username and password are not really secrets,
> they're just another annoying thing to type to get access to an
> effectively public resource in my network.
> 
> I want to be able to access the shares without typing in anything, even to
> gnone, and even once per session.  I'm slack.  :-)
> 
> Regards, Msquared...




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