Fedora Core 4 Test Update: NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.1

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Thu Jan 12 23:35:24 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 13:30 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 13:20 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:04 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > 
> > >   The current operation of NM is entirely
> > > consistent with a laptop/mobile-user use-case,
> > 
> > Not true.  If it was, it wouldn't ask me for a passphrase to unlock my
> > keyring before connecting to a WAP; logging in (even automatically via
> > gdm) would be sufficient for a key required to authenticate with an AP.
> 
> _NM_ is entirely consistent.  Whatever the Gnome Keyring does is another
> story.

That's a total cop-out.  NM uses gnome-keyring, which in this case means
it behaves in a way that's inconsistent with that use-case.

-- 
  Peter




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