[Klug-general] Keyring

[Daniel Ellis]

That problem went away for me when I selected "Available to all users"
at the bottom of the connection details dialog within Network Manager.

DanE

On 5 October 2010 11:40, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> The keyring thing can be a pain, and I'm working from memory here, and of
> course it's all affected by how your distro is configured.  It used to be
> easy: networking started at boot time, read data from the various interface
> config scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, which also contained
> (shock-horror) any encryption keys you needed.
>
> This can still be done - but most distros these days use network-manager.
>  The principle is good - but it's not quite thought through enough as far as
> I can tell.  Network manager stores your encryption key data in the keyring.
>  The trick here is to have your keyring password the same as your desktop
> password and if that is the case you don't get prompted again for it - at
> least when using a Gnome desktop.
>
> However I feel that this model is still not correct.  As far as I can see
> the network connection gets established by the first person to log on, when
> their desktop starts.  In a house network that means you have to add the key
> to each user's keyring in case they are the person starting the machine up.
> Once that connection is established it remains - even if you log off and
> someone else logs on.  This isn't quite what you would want as a system
> administrator.  There should be a central place to store keys which are
> system wide - but if there is I've not found it or it has been added since I
> last tried.  Maybe someone has configured it all more recently than I.
>
> MikeE
>
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