keyrings

[Steven Susbauer]

On Sat, 23 May 2009 07:15:41 -0500, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Shannon McMackin wrote:
>> On 05/22/2009 06:43 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/22/2009 02:14 PM, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>>>      I am having trouble with keyrings. To get my wireless network to
>>>> work I have to give the darn thing my password! It used to take just  
>>>> one
>>>> I was forced to make which had a simple password.
>>>>
>>>>      I can't find out anything about this mess! I tried keys and got  
>>>> ssh
>>>> stuff which is not what I want. Where can I read about this stuff? I
>>>> want to turn it all OFF. You do not need it on a small laptop :-)
>>>>
>>>> Karl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> <http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2Bjaunty+%2Bwireless+%2Bkeyring&btnG=Search>
>>> and
>>> <https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=jaunty+%2Bwireless+%2Bkeyring>
>>>
>>> might help.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> What's odd here, is that on my jaunty install, I only had to enter my
>> wep key once in my profile and never once was I prompted for a keyring
>> password.  I was prompted from the live CD that I installed from.  Maybe
>> installing from DVD gives you the additional packages for the keyring.
>>
>>
>>
>     Thank you Shannon! I have no idea what happened. The Key Ring I
> think is a VERY BAD idea which is causing lots of Ubuntu users trouble.
> What we need is a way to disable the Key Ring in Gnome.
>
>     In anycase I entered my problem onto an existing bug. There are
> hundreds of them :-)
>
>
> Karl
>
>

The keyring is actually a great idea, just one that many users are not  
used to (maybe if they come from Mac, which uses keychains). What better  
way can you think of to save system passwords in a secure form without  
random applications saving them theirselves in whichever way the developer  
thought to do? This is exactly why a standard keyring system exists, with  
one password to unlock it. It can be set to unlock on login though.

You can set or remove a keyring password (or a keyring itself - but you  
will most likely recreate it whenever you use the app that tries storing  
to the keyring) using seahorse. Just fire it up, open the "Passwords" tab  
and right click on whichever keyring you want to modify.