Hans van der Merwe wrote:

Is there a way to configure openSUSE (any distro version actually) to use single-signon for ALL services? After playing with AD samba, kerberos, PAM (some, I dont really know PAM yet) configurations I still have issues with the following:

1. KDE still asks for a username and password when accessing windows shares (unless I statically enter the user pass combination in kcontrol)

You can configure a default password, for accessing Windows shares, in Personal Settings.

2. CUPS needs static username password combination to access windows (samba) printers.

Probably as above.

3. Firefox still asks for user;pass when accessing local NTLM pages. (not a OS issue, I know)

4. Evolution saves user;pass in keyring somewhere

5. knetworkmanager saves user;pass in kwallet

Everytime our IT admin forces us to change our passwords I have to manually go and change it for all of the above. And if I forget - like with CUPS - and try and print, it locks my account.

I know this is a lot harder than it sounds, but why don't all apps just use something like PAM to auth user activity? Why have keyrings, wallets, registries, credentials files, etc?

Later, Hans ps. I actually know the answer, but still want to know if anyone else is also annoyed by this?

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On Thursday 15 November 2007 03:30, Hans van der Merwe wrote:

Is there a way to configure openSUSE (any distro version actually) to use single-signon for ALL services? After playing with AD samba, kerberos, PAM (some, I dont really know PAM yet) configurations I still have issues with the following:

1. KDE still asks for a username and password when accessing windows shares (unless I statically enter the user pass combination in kcontrol)

2. CUPS needs static username password combination to access windows (samba) printers.

3. Firefox still asks for user;pass when accessing local NTLM pages. (not a OS issue, I know)

4. Evolution saves user;pass in keyring somewhere

5. knetworkmanager saves user;pass in kwallet

Everytime our IT admin forces us to change our passwords I have to manually go and change it for all of the above. And if I forget - like with CUPS - and try and print, it locks my account.

I know this is a lot harder than it sounds, but why don't all apps just use something like PAM to auth user activity? Why have keyrings, wallets, registries, credentials files, etc?

Later, Hans ps. I actually know the answer, but still want to know if anyone else is also annoyed by this?

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