Wireless Network Key

[David Meireles]

Well, one thing that I thought kind of annoying was the fact that, 
everytime I resumed my laptop from hibernation (I rarelly shut it down, 
always hibernate) the password for the keyring was asked. After digging 
a litlle bit, I found that I could change that behaviour in the gnome 
power manager settings through gconf. I'm not viewing this discussion 
from the beginning, but if this is the case, there's a solution for you.

Mark Haney escreveu:
> Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
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>> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:43 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
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>> If you use a hard to crack master key phrase, it would be extremely
>> difficult to get access to the encrypted keys.  Root access does not get
>> you access to the keys in a user's keyring.  You need to know the
>> passphrase.  Normally, this looks like it is the user's login password,
>> but it can be changed, so you are prompted to unlock the keyring when
>> applications ask for access.
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> Again, my point here is, if you get user access to Ubuntu, you can get 
> root with no trouble.  Therein is one of those gotchas with Ubuntu.
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> Besides, how many people would change their master passphrase to 
> something different from their login password?  Most regular users 
> probably wouldn't.  That's one of the really frustrating things about 
> dealing with security issues.  Most of the ones that come back to bite 
> you in the ass aren't the really complicated ones, it's the easy crap 
> (like having different passwords, etc.) that gets you.
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> Maybe we're arguing both sides of the same coin, but the fact is, I 
> offered that as a solution that will work with the obvious caveat thrown 
> in.  I have wireless on several systems without X on them, so NM won't 
> help me in that case.
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