Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3109 mails)

[Hans van der Merwe <hvdmerwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 19:05 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 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?
> ------------
> 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.
> 


On this topic.
It seems that KNetworkManager adopted the "NO config options for idiot
users" approach of its Gnome ancestor. 
I need buttons to press and checkboxes to check dammit.
Things I need to set myself:
1.  Where to keep passwords
2.  Edit config settings of wireless networks
3.  Edit priority list of networks
4.  Make dialup status indicator work
and more...
Today is the day I fire-up bugzilla.





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