On Friday 27 November 2009 14:53:44 Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Marko Vojinovic writes:
> I simply want to connect to my wireless automatically upon boot and not
> being asked for any passwords. I have also enabled autologin in kdm in
> order to get logged in automatically (this works beautifully, btw).
I got this to work myself. However, I think that the only way to both
autologin from gdm/kdm, and unlock the keyring, is to set an empty password
on your keyring.
Use seahorse to set a blank password on your keyring. If it won't let you,
delete your keyring completely. On the next login you'll be prompted to
create one, create it with a blank password.
It works! Great, thanks a lot! :-)
The magic word here was "seahorse" --- actually quite a natural and intuitive
name for a keyring manager application, what can I say... It did let me create
an empty password, after a couple of "are you sure" warnings.
However since you're on autologin, you never enter your login
password.
Since your password is encrypted in the password file, certain inconvenient
laws of physics that govern our shared universe make it impossible for any
app to automatically obtain your cleartext password, and use it to unlock
your keyring.
That's precisely what I was afraid of --- the system cannot read the password
if I don't type it. Way too inconvenient, if you ask me... :-D
Thanks again for help!
Best, :-)
Marko