Whoever gave NM a keyring

Fri Nov 6 23:51:16 UTC 2009

Steve wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:05:19 -0000, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> 
>> Markus SchÃ¶nhaber wrote:
>>> Karl F. Larsen:
>>>
>>>> Markus SchÃƒÂ¶nhaber 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.
>>>
>> 	You are dead wrong!
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
> "Since NetworkManager considers wireless selection as a preference, it  
> does not connect to any wireless networks unless a user is logged onto a  
> desktop and one is selected."
> 
>  From http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/networkmanager/
> 
> 
	I hope it is possible to stop this stupidity.

73 Karl


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