Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3109 mails)

[Helmut Schaa <hschaa@xxxxxxx>]

Am Sonntag, 25. Februar 2007 05:05 schrieb John Andersen:
> On Saturday 24 February 2007, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > I had the same issue for a year or so until I activated KWallet. I let
> > KNetwork manager have access to KWallet and it now correctly connects to
> > my WPA secured network rather than my neighbors' unsecured networks.
>
> Mine has access to the wallet too.
>
> (That is another issue that gripes me.  Why should I have to
> run a passwordless wallet in order to allow boot time
> connection to wireless, and thereby putting all my personal
> settings and passwords at risk?

You can configure a system wide wifi connection using yast. NetworkManager 
will activate it on boot.

> Why does knetworkmanager need to store wireless keys
> in a wallet?  How secret do these things have to be?
> Why can't it store it in regular file with restrictive
> permissions?

Good point, I thougth about letting the user choose if he wants to store the 
keys unencrypted (e.g. in the knm config file or in a seperate passwordless 
wallet) a while ago too. Perhaps we get that into the next major release.

> ------------
> But I digress.....
> Merely having the keys in the wallet does not seem sufficient
> to cause it to prefer the wet/wpa connections to the un-secured
> neighbors wifi.

Open the "show networks..." dialog and delete your neighbors networks. Only 
your's should stay.

Helmut
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