What pgm reads the /etc/network/interfaces file? (Installation WPA worked great! Too bad I messed with it!)

[Charles Smith]

That did the trick.  Works perfectly now.  Thank you.

I didnt read carefully the first time, unfortunately, and didnt set the keychain password to be the same as the login password.  As a consequence, I got the keychain prompt again.  Once I made the two passwords the same, ubuntu starts up connected.  Roaming mode was the key.

Im still curious what the chain of events is that lead to some pgm putting up that keychain prompt (when the passwords dont match).  I wish linux would improve on windows by not allowing anonymous actions.  At the very least, maybe there should be a /var/log/dialogs, where all dialogs need to register themselves and their callers...

Thanks again,
CTS

--- On Sun, 7/5/09, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: What pgm reads the /etc/network/interfaces file? (Installation  WPA worked great! Too bad I messed with it!)
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009, 1:43 PM
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:35 PM,
> Charles Smith<cts.private at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > But then I get a new problem.  A dialog pops up from
> nowhere (I hate it that linux wants to be so much like
> windows) and informs me that nb-applet wants to write to the
> keychain, and that I need to put in the keychain password.
> >
> > Well, this is neither the root password nor the
> current user password.  I can't find or remember it (and I
> don't usually forget passwords).
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how I can reset the keychain
> password - without knowing it in advance (I *have* the root
> password)?
> 
> The keychain password is set on install to be the same as
> the users
> password.   If you change the user's
> password thru 'passwd' it doesn't
> update the keychain password - it will still be the same as
> it ever
> was.
> 
> If you can't retrieve it, you can delete the keychain and
> start a new
> one called 'login'.  Give it the same password as the
> user and it will
> unlock on login.
> 
> Brian
> 
> -- 
> All you need to know about Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty ->
> gconftool -s --type
> bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
> 
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