I should mention that I'm a total newbie with keyrings! I tried searching for help sites - found 1, but I still have a problem. If there is a website (or sites) that explain this, please post it (them)! Ok, so I have a laptop with wifi, running CentOS 5.2. When I boot it, it finds the nearby wifi signals, and tries to connect to mine. To do this, it puts up a window to get my default keyring password. Perhaps I needed to config something? Anyway, I found http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/NetworkManager , which _seems_ to explain everything. However, my newbie-ness is interfering with this process. NB - I use gnome. The problem is that it's still asking for the default password. I'm fairly sure that I didn't *complete* that process (one issue - that password is different from my user password.) It states that I need (?) to change the keyring password to be the same as the user password - but I can't figure out how. The last sentence: (Using gnome-keyring-manager), "highlight the keyring and select Change Keyring Password from the Keyring menu of gnome-keyring-manager. I don't have 'Change' anything there - whether as $ or #. What do I need to do to satisfy it (so that it doesn't ask for the password)?
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Michael Klinosky <mpk2 at enter.net> wrote:> > Ok, so I have a laptop with wifi, running CentOS 5.2. When I boot it, it > finds the nearby wifi signals, and tries to connect to mine. To do this, > it puts up a window to get my default keyring password. Perhaps I needed > to config something? >I had a similar problem at my last job connecting Evolution to a Windows Exchange Server for my email. Eventually, I found that if I told Evolution NOT to remember my password, but I input it manually every time, then the system would not pester me about the default keyring password. For the record, I never did figure out the problem, and my requests for assistance from the gnome list went nowhere - I suspect no one there knew how to get past this, either. I tried creating new keyrings, all the passwords I could think of for the default keyring (none of them worked, including no password), and I found this workaround to be sufficient for what I needed. HTH mhr