Whoever gave NM a keyring

Markus Schönhaber ubuntu-users at list-post.mks-mail.de
Fri Nov 6 22:32:16 UTC 2009


Karl F. Larsen:

> Markus Schönhaber wrote:
>> Nils Kassube:
>>
>>> Again a general statement which isn't necessarily true for everybody. I 
>>> prefer wicd because of a totally different reason: it will make the WLAN 
>>> connection independent from the login of a user.
>> Which NM also does - at least for me since Jaunty.
>>
> 	Not really. Using NM you must give the other user the 
> password to the keyring.

Wrong.
NM establishes the WLAN connection even *without any user logged in*.
Which makes it very obvious that the WPA password is not stored in any
individual user's keyring.

-- 
Regards
  mks




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