On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 22:20 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 22:02 -0400, Robert Love wrote: > > Attached patch adds support for gnome-keyring to nm-applet and stores > > the essid key encrypted in the keyring instead of cleartext in gconf. > > > > It is a first pass, but it seems to work well [1]. > > > > One issue is it causes the gnome-keyring "decrypt your keyring" dialog > > to pop up as soon as the applet loads (presuming that your keyring is > > not already decrypted, of course). > > Offtopic, but IMO we should just get rid of that dialog
Which requires automatically unlocking the keyring when the user logs in which is non-trivial at best. It's also highly OS/distribution specific. > (and the whole > keyring access control). It is a pretty small barrier versus a > compromised application, confusing to users, and it's also annoying. I concur that the "allow application XYZ to access item ABC" dialog should be removed in gnome-keyring proper (maybe a setting but default to off). Apple does have this one but I really really doubt it is useful at all. However, I'm pretty sure we want someway to control that e.g. a compromised application which is not /usr/libexec/nm-applet cannot read your WEP pass phrases from your keyring, no? So, I guess my point is that we shouldn't care too much about annoying gnome-keyring dialogs at this point. Not that it doesn't matter, cause it does, however all that work is elsewhere really. David _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list