Seahorse vs Evolution ?

[William Case]

Hi Matthew;

And thanks.  I thought I was going nuts.

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 15:58 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 13:29 -0500, William Case wrote:
[snip]
> If you save passwords to your mailboxes, etc., in Evo, they are stored
> on your keyring.  To get access to them, you must authenticate to your
> keyring.  There's no getting around that.  (NetworkManager stores your
> wireless keys on your keyring too, so you have to authenticate to log
> onto a wireless network as well.  But you should only need to do it once
> per login.)
> 
> There is a package gnome-keyring-pam that is supposed to automatically
> unlock your keyring if the keyring and login passwords are the same, but
> it doesn't work yet.  Check Bugzilla for that component.
> 

N.B. 
> gnome-keyring-pam replaced pam-keyring, which used to work in F7 (if
> properly set up), but I haven't tried to get it working in F8.

There are plugins for other programs -- but not Evo.  I gather that the
reason then that I am not being asked for a password as another 'user'
is because those other 'users' don't have a key ring.

-- 
Regards Bill