One Hundred Paper Cuts -- the first ten

[Niels Egberts]

> This is exactly what already happens, Network Manager saves the network
> passphrase for future use.
>
> The problem is that the keyring *into which* it saves that password is
> encrypted with your login password as a key.
>
> If you use auto-login, your *keyring* is not yet open.
>
> The passphrase you have to enter is not the network passphrase, it is
> your login password - needed to decrypt your keyring.
>
>
> Otherwise all the saved passwords and passphrases would be trivially
> readable :-(

Why not let the user decide if the network-passphrase will be stored
encrypted or not? I am not afraid that my passphrase will be stolen,
and if it is, they already have access to my whole computer.