gnome keyring password - optional?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

man, 04.04.2005 kl. 10.54 skrev Msquared:
> 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.
> 

I think it is part of some standard, as "guest" almost always seems to
work. Speak with some samba guys for the details?

> 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.
> 
Yes. Have some passwords not require a key. After all, it's the users
responsibility...

> Regards, Msquared...