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

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 09:44 +0100, Richard Antony Burton wrote:
> 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.

Hi,

This is a compile time option, so if you have no problem building your
own package, this can be disabled.

It's off by default, but enabled in the Debian package. I don't know if
there's a strong reason for it to be enabled? The upstream bug
discussing this feature mirrors your concerns, that's why it isn't
enabled by default.

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344839 for the discussion.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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