NetworkManager connection to encrypted Wireless Network

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 13 02:09:08 UTC 2008


--- On Wed, 11/12/08, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:

> From: Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: NetworkManager connection to encrypted Wireless Network
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 6:03 PM
> On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 17:57 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > Thank you in advance for all your
> help/suggestions/advice.
> 
> The gnome keyring is a secure storage of various
> passphrases that you
> may use during your session.  It typically has one password
> to unlock
> the key, and then other passphrases can be fetched from the
> keyring for
> various applications.  Quite often, the keyring has the
> same password as
> your login password, but this isn't required (nor
> should it be
> encouraged).
> 
> Now, if you've forgotten your gnome keyring password,
> that's going to be
> fun to recover.  The easiest thing to do is remove the
> existing keyring
> so that upon next session you get the opportunity to create
> a new
> keyring (and this time set it to a password you remember). 
> To do this,
> remove the files in .gnome2/keyrings/ and log back into
> gnome.
> 
> -- 
> Jesse Keating
> Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
> identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
> -- 

Thank you very much, 

I will give it a try tomorrow.  Upon success/failure, I will hopefully report back.

Regards,

Antonio 


      




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