Keyring password (Re: Installation report for UNR 20090324 on Acer Aspire One)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:49:08PM +0100, Wouter Stomp wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Matt Zimmerman [2009-03-24 11:07 +0000]:
> >> I installed with auto-login enabled, and when I connected to a WPA network,
> >> I was prompted for a password to create the default keyring.
> >>  Is there any way to avoid this awkward prompt?
> >
> > Tricky. I'm not very fond of disabling the keyring password entirely
> > in such cases and thus store passwords unencrypted; that might be
> > acceptable for wifi passwords, but much less so for SSH ones.
> >
> > This cries for a more fundamental design discussion about single-user
> > vs. multi-user use cases, account management, and using gnome-keyring.
> > I don't think we can sensibly change this still for Jaunty.
> >
> 
> How about only storing wifi passwords unencrypted then for jaunty as a
> temporary solution? (having to type my password anyway after autologin
> has been a long time annoyance for me, it kind of defeats the whole
> purpose of autologin for me)

This seems perfectly reasonable to me; wifi passwords are not usually so
sensitive that they need to be encrypted on disk.

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 - mdz