NM Password Problem

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Mar 12 18:19:09 UTC 2009


Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> NetworkManager works fine, except...
> 
> In Gnome, a window pops up, asking for my password, which then connects 
> the wireless internet. In KDE, as root, the same occurs, but in KDE, as me, 
> that window does not show up. Instead, a different window, namely the one 
> that asks the type of wireless security and the actual passphrase of the 
> wireless router (I think this is the wpa_supplicant window) shows up.
> 
> It all used to work, right up until about a week ago, when I started having 
> to enter the wireless passphrase instead of my... uh, what is it, security 
> password for pam? for who knows what? that NM uses.

The lovely mysterious thing that is gnome-keyring (and 
gnome-keyring-pam) at work.

-- Rex



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