Wireless default keyring in jaunty

[n.hinton]

Wireless default keyring in jaunty has been buging me since my first install of jaunty a couple of months ago.

I edited my witless network connection almost by accident discovered “make available to all users” check box, checked it, now jaunty boots connected, with no requests for passwords.

After accomplishing my objective, I googled edit network connection and found

http://preview.tinyurl.com/n2jv9y

http://www.eteanga.ie/solution-to-ub...ing-to-unlock/

Why isn't this stuff published in the support pages, how to do it and implications etc. there are enough posts in this forum regarding this issue. It reminds me very much of Microsoft and the way they attempt to conceal configuration settings, only to be made public by users - - - this is Ubuntu - - - So why should this be?

[W3ird_N3rd]

Thanks a million buddy! In previous Ubuntu versions I used to set a blank keyring password to make it connect by default, but I couldn't find again how to do that in Jaunty. Asked Google "jaunty wireless keyring" and this was the first page to pop up, and it works perfectly!

I'm aware it's not perfectly totally 100% secure (what if the laptop gets stolen and somebody chases the owner to his or her home and breaks into their wireless network ) but I really don't want to ask my mother to enter a password everytime she boots up the system.

[tgeer43]

Why isn't this stuff published in the support pages?

Is this your question?

At any rate, this probably belongs in the Networking & Wireless forum.

tgeer

[jrssystemsnet]

Thank you, n.hinton!

[ricojonah]

Just in case the site that those URLs refer to change, here's the quick info on how to correct the keyring-prompt-on-startup issue:

1) Right-click on your Network Manager applet (tray icon) and select "Edit Connections"
2) Click on the Wireless tab, make sure your wireless network is selected, and click on "Edit".
3) At the bottom on the new window, check "Available to all users".
4) Close all the windows, reboot, and test to ensure that this solves the issue.

This seems like a much better approach than simply using a blank password for the keyring. While it's unlikely, I certainly wouldn't want anyone to have access to my keyring passwords by simply power on my laptop. (Beware the snooping room-mates!)

Thanks for the links!

[guriinii]

Thank you very, very much. This has been doing my head in.

[MockY]

Just in case the site that those URLs refer to change, here's the quick info on how to correct the keyring-prompt-on-startup issue:

1) Right-click on your Network Manager applet (tray icon) and select "Edit Connections"
2) Click on the Wireless tab, make sure your wireless network is selected, and click on "Edit".
3) At the bottom on the new window, check "Available to all users".
4) Close all the windows, reboot, and test to ensure that this solves the issue.

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!
Sorry for the caps but this is something I always though was a bug, starting with Feisty (unless this capability is new for Karmic). I have always been a user of WiCd because of this reason. Now I don't have to.
Awesome!

[xboxSlayer]

Just in case the site that those URLs refer to change, here's the quick info on how to correct the keyring-prompt-on-startup issue:

1) Right-click on your Network Manager applet (tray icon) and select "Edit Connections"
2) Click on the Wireless tab, make sure your wireless network is selected, and click on "Edit".
3) At the bottom on the new window, check "Available to all users".
4) Close all the windows, reboot, and test to ensure that this solves the issue.

Thanks! This worked for me as well.

[JAS40]

Just in case the site that those URLs refer to change, here's the quick info on how to correct the keyring-prompt-on-startup issue:

1) Right-click on your Network Manager applet (tray icon) and select "Edit Connections"
2) Click on the Wireless tab, make sure your wireless network is selected, and click on "Edit".
3) At the bottom on the new window, check "Available to all users".
4) Close all the windows, reboot, and test to ensure that this solves the issue.

This seems like a much better approach than simply using a blank password for the keyring. While it's unlikely, I certainly wouldn't want anyone to have access to my keyring passwords by simply power on my laptop. (Beware the snooping room-mates!)

Thanks for the links!

Thanks, that worked a treat!

[GregoryMA]

I also wanted to thank you for this. I have been looking for a way to make the password free login actually a password free login for a long time.

Greg