network-manager, WPA and (maybe not) gnome-keyring

[Felipe Figueiredo]

Hello,

I got it all working under Feisty in my mother's laptop, WPA2 connection to 
the router, which was promplty detected and used by NM. To avoid making her 
type her gnome-keyring password every boot, I set the whole thing in roaming 
mode, and it also works great.

But this way she looses the ability to check interface info IP, GW, DNS (which 
I like a lot), and to reset the DHCP IP (which she likes a lot). So I would 
like a way to get NM to work the way it likes a lot (which happens to be 
using gnome-keyring). 

If google is my friend, the way to do this is to set g-keyring to auth via PAM 
on login (assuming it's the same passwd for the account and the keyring 
itself). I don't like this, because this would effectively defeat the 
keyring's purpose, of protecting its contents. What I would really like would 
be to unprotect SOME passwords stored in g-keyring, but not all (e.g., wifi 
passphrases unprotected but, say, gpg passphrases protected).

So, does anybody if the PAM way of not authenticating into protected WIFI is 
the only way, or if there's some way of configuring gnome-keyring to do what 
I described above?

regards
FF