[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#449501: Bug#449501: Bug#449501: network-manager-gnome: nm-applet asks for the keyring password when it obviously doesn't need it

[Michael Biebl]

Mike Hommey schrieb:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:19:55AM +0100, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
>> Mike Hommey schrieb:
>>> reopen 449501
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> I think there *is* a n-m-g bug : why does it need the keyring while it
>>> obviously got the key without it !
>> That's impossible. Maybe you unlocked it using pam_keyring or
>> libpam-gnome-keyring.
> 
> I wonder if it actually doesn't get help from the wireless driver, since
> it is reassociating to the same AP with the same key it was using before
> hibernation. And the keyring dialog does say nm-applet is requesting access
> to the keyring.

n-m does not keep the key in memory. In addition, on suspend/hibernate
the network devices are put to sleep, so they need the key again on
resume. So it is to expect that n-m-g asks gnome-keyring for the key again.
I don't yet see where the bug in n-m/n-m-g is?

Cheers,
Michael

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