GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 694720
Gnome shell encrypted USB HDD password dialog prompt doesn't remember state of "remember password" checkbox.
Last modified: 2013-02-26 10:04:44 UTC
Each time I plug in my encrypted HDD, gnome shell's password dialog helpfully asks me to enter the encrypted passphrase to unlock. There's also a checkbox which asks me if I want to remember this passphrase in the keyring. I don't, because this would make my encrypted HDD password as secure as gnome-keyring is instead of being independent. (This is a personal preference, not a criticism of gnome-keyring.) The problem is that *every time* I plug it in, I have to uncheck that darn box. The default should be UNCHECKED, and if for some reason, someone disagrees with that default, then at least it should remember the unchecked default for each drive or system wide if that makes more sense. GNOME is awesome because it has the _right_ defaults. Please fix this, thank you! If you can point me to exactly where this bug / section is in the code, then I can try and write a patch, but I would need some "GNOME Love" as mentorship if it's in C. Thank you again! James
This has been fixed back in December, so it should be in 3.8. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 688039 ***
Oh awesome. I tried to search for this beforehand, but I didn't find it. Sorry for the noise!
Created attachment 237422 [details] GNOME Shell extension to change default in password dialog I wrote an extension to change the default in GNOME 3.6. Just untar this in your home directory and use gnome-tweak-tool to enable it.