Bug#421222: vino: requires access to gnome keyring making unattended remote connection impossible

[Richard Antony Burton]

Package: vino
Version: 2.18.1-2
Severity: important

Trying to connect to system running vino remotely causes popup on host
requesting vino-server permission to access keyring. If you click the always
allow option you don't need to do this again, though that first time you hit
this from a remote location it's pretty bad. On future connections you are
prompted to unlock your keyring, if it hasn't been unlocked recently. Again,
when this happen from a remote location it makes the connection impossible.

In previous version of vino this was not a problem as it did not use gnome
keyring. It looks to me like gnome keyring is the wrong place to store the vino
password as it is not suitable for non-interactive use.

Richard.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages vino depends on:
ii  gconf2                      2.18.0.1-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libavahi-client3            0.6.18-3     Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3            0.6.18-3     Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-glib1              0.6.18-3     Avahi glib integration library
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.18.0-2     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.5-4        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.0.2-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.73-2       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.18.0.1-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.2.4-2      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.6.0-4    library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.11-3    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0           0.8.1-2      GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.18.0-4     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.18.1-2     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnutls13                 1.6.2-1      the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.10.11-2    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-13        The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2 0.4.4-3      sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.14.7-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.3-7    X11 client-side library
ii  libxdamage1                 1:1.1.1-3    X11 damaged region extension libra
ii  libxext6                    1:1.0.3-2    X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                  1:4.0.3-2    X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxtst6                    1:1.0.1-5    X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.3-13   compression library - runtime

vino recommends no packages.

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