Is it possible to set an empty password on my gnome keyring?
I know it's a security risk, but here's my rationale:
I have some Windows machines on my network, and for some obscure reason they ask me for a username and password in nautilus when I access them. Another Windows machine accessing them doesn't have to supply a password (or perhaps the password is hardcoded in Windows). To access the Windows share I just use the username Guest and the password Guest.
The point is that the username and password are not really secrets, they're just another annoying thing to type to get access to an effectively public resource in my network.
I want to be able to access the shares without typing in anything, even to gnone, and even once per session. I'm slack. :-)
Regards, Msquared...
fre, 01.04.2005 kl. 17.20 skrev Msquared:
Is it possible to set an empty password on my gnome keyring?
I know it's a security risk, but here's my rationale:
I have some Windows machines on my network, and for some obscure reason they ask me for a username and password in nautilus when I access them. Another Windows machine accessing them doesn't have to supply a password (or perhaps the password is hardcoded in Windows). To access the Windows share I just use the username Guest and the password Guest.
Why can't gnome also have "Guest" hardcoded into itself, and if that fails, ask the user?
The point is that the username and password are not really secrets, they're just another annoying thing to type to get access to an effectively public resource in my network.
I want to be able to access the shares without typing in anything, even to gnone, and even once per session. I'm slack. :-)
Regards, Msquared...
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:29:53PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
I have some Windows machines on my network, and for some obscure reason they ask me for a username and password in nautilus when I access them. Another Windows machine accessing them doesn't have to supply a password (or perhaps the password is hardcoded in Windows). To access the Windows share I just use the username Guest and the password Guest.
Why can't gnome also have "Guest" hardcoded into itself, and if that fails, ask the user?
To be honest, I don't know if that's defined behaviour, a common conventions, or just happens to work here on my network.
It would still be nice to either specify an empty password for the keyring, or that some passwords don't require the keyring password to access.
Regards, Msquared...
man, 04.04.2005 kl. 10.54 skrev Msquared:
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:29:53PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
I have some Windows machines on my network, and for some obscure reason they ask me for a username and password in nautilus when I access them. Another Windows machine accessing them doesn't have to supply a password (or perhaps the password is hardcoded in Windows). To access the Windows share I just use the username Guest and the password Guest.
Why can't gnome also have "Guest" hardcoded into itself, and if that fails, ask the user?
To be honest, I don't know if that's defined behaviour, a common conventions, or just happens to work here on my network.
I think it is part of some standard, as "guest" almost always seems to work. Speak with some samba guys for the details?
It would still be nice to either specify an empty password for the keyring, or that some passwords don't require the keyring password to access.
Yes. Have some passwords not require a key. After all, it's the users responsibility...
Regards, Msquared...