GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 444607
Password can't be changed/configured
Last modified: 2007-12-28 21:32:46 UTC
When I log in to my computer, I enter my password. Then, Network Manager requests access to my wireless key. This causes Gnome Keyring to ask me for the same password I just entered five seconds earlier. That's ridiculous. I'd like to solve the problem by removing the password. But, there isn't a single configuration option in the keyring manager to change or set the password (it must be tied to the system login password), and the entirety of the documentation is the single word "Welcome." Useless. Please make it possible for me to get rid of a pointless and annoying password prompt. As the user, I should be able to decide on the level of security that's right for me. I wouldn't mind storing my wireless key in cleartext. Why mess with passwords? Perhaps a more elegant solution would be to provide an option to trust specific programs, so that if I tell g-k trust NetworkManager, then I won't ever see another password prompt again. (NetworkManager appears to be the only program on my system that even uses g-k. Nautilus apparently has its own methods.) Other information: I'm running Ubuntu Feisty.
(In reply to comment #0) > But, there isn't a single > configuration option in the keyring manager to change or set the password (it > must be tied to the system login password), and the entirety of the > documentation is the single word "Welcome." Useless. This is a bug in gnome-keyring-manager which is a separate project. I'm moving this bug there. > Please make it possible for me to get rid of a pointless and annoying password > prompt. As the user, I should be able to decide on the level of security that's > right for me. I wouldn't mind storing my wireless key in cleartext. Why mess > with passwords? Yes, we're working on that. It's on the roadmap for this next release. I hope we can complete it in time. See Bug #447763 > Perhaps a more elegant solution would be to provide an option to trust specific > programs, so that if I tell g-k trust NetworkManager, then I won't ever see > another password prompt again. (NetworkManager appears to be the only program > on my system that even uses g-k. Nautilus apparently has its own methods.) Nautilus and gnome-vfs use gnome-keyring. Perhaps they just use it in a better fashion.
I don't know if this is a bug in keyring manager or network manager or what. I'm not so sure that I care. But I do care about getting this behavior changed. Please increase the human usability of Ubuntu by removing the need for the second password. Please!
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 331529 ***