wireless on 9.04

[Karl F. Larsen]

Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 22:08 -0400 schrieb Jay Daniels:
> 
>> I was mistaken, it's not a key it's an encrypted password, but the wifi
>> passphrase _is_ stored by seahorse in hardy - at least when using nm
>> applet.
> right, as i explained to karl before, gnome-keyring acts like a wallet
> holding *all* passwords, passphrases, wifi keys etc for your user ...
> 
> to *open* that wallet (and make gnome-keyring supply the stored password
> for a service automatically, so you dont have to remember each and every
> passphrase for services you use) you need exactly that encrypted
> password. 
> 
> this has the advantage that you either need to remember only one
> additional password to your login data (if you, like karl, choose one
> that differs from your login password) or no password at all because you
> a) left the encrypted password empty or b) chose to use an identical one
> to your login password.
> 
> gnome-keyring is just a convenience so you dont need to remember all the
> single passwords for each WLAN, GPG, ssh connection etc separately.
> 
> ciao
> 	oli
> 

	This sounds great. But if you do not know why the panel appears asking 
for your keychain password, it is confusing. And I think having to 
supply that password to get the Internet working when using wifi is not 
a plus.

	But I now see why Ubuntu has this system and if I did a bunch of  ssh 
and such it might be useful. But I am home, not in an office.

73 Karl


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