gnome keyring always needs to be unlocked
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Oct 18 21:05:56 UTC 2007
Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton <at> gmail.com> writes:
> That is absolutely 100% not true. If someone steals your laptop and
> you have a passwordless keyring like in KWallet, your passwords are
> pretty much stolen. Boot off a bootable cd mount the filesystem,
> done.
You have a point there, but isn't that use case better served by encrypting the
entire home directory, not just the keyring/wallet? Many users have plenty of
sensitive data outside the keyring/wallet too.
(By the way, KWallet isn't always passwordless, it just allows it. I consider
gnome-keyrings refusal to allow an empty password a typical example of
GNOME's "we know better than you" attitude.)
Kevin Kofler
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