logging into network manager

[David Vincent]

Tim M wrote:
> After I hibernate 7.10 I have to log in twice. The second login is for
> network manager. Is there a way to keep from having to log in network
> manager? (I am using a wireless network card) I have to be careful not
> to try to check mail, and hope it isn't checked automatically from one
> of my online email programs. If Firefox tries to connect before I
> logon it will stop trying to connect and the only way I have found to
> get it connected again is to restart the computer.

on another note, this was a real problem for me under Feisty.  if you 
poke around you will find lots of how-to's out there on patching things 
to make gnome-keyring-manager not ask for passwords at annoying times. 
when i did this for Gutsy i found nothing.

then i noticed that on machines which have had Gutsy freshly installed 
on them rather than being upgraded from Feisty, if your login password 
is the same as your keyring password and you actually login (ie. don't 
use autologin) then you aren't prompted for that second 
unlock-the-keyring-so-network-manager-can-connect password.

that was the basic strategy of all the hacks i saw, i assume the 
developers adopted some of that for Gutsy - anyone know for sure?

so that's what i've done.  a fresh install of Gutsy on the affected 
machines and some tinkering in gconf-editor to make sure the keyring 
doesn't lock itself when i don't want it to.

secure?  probably not.  convenient?  hell yes.

-d