Howto: Get Network Manager to stop asking you for your keyring password (pam_keyring)

[whomever21]

has anyone tried this?

[lawhorne]

I just followed the steps listed on
http://www.akyl.net/Network+Manager+...in+Ubuntu+8.04

It worked perfectly. I was trying to avoid having to enter a password after autologon (desktop computer). This solved my problem.
Thanks

[cutOff]

Only took me three days of searching for this but finally!
Thanks yngens and Ulan Melisbek, this is a good workaround for this problem, and don't worry Wicd rocks! This the text from this link:

"Network Manager problem in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron(works on 7.10 also)

Submitted by Ulan Melisbek on Sat, 2008-03-22 10:50.

Just have installed Ubuntu 8.04 Beta and since I did not like the way it starts up, turned on auto-login. Unfortunately, every time you start Ubuntu after this the Network Manager keeps asking you for your keyring password. Which is very much annoying. So I followed these steps to solve the issue:

1. Go to Administration > Synaptic Package Manager > Settings > Repositories > Third Party Software > Add...

deb http://apt.wicd.net hardy extras

(replace 'hardy' with 'dapper', 'edgy', 'feisty' or 'gutsy' according to your system's name).

2. Click Reload and wait while the package lists are downloaded, Search for "Wicd" and install it. The system will warn about that in order to install Wicd you have to uninstall NetworkManager. Response positively and just go ahead and finish the installation.

Don't worry about the message "The NetworkManager applet could not find some required resources. It cannot continue", just close it for now.

3. Go to Applications > Internet > Wicd.

Attention! If Wicd does not run at this stage, then have these instructions copied in some place on your Desktop or Home folder, because you will now need to restart your computer, and after the system loads back you will not have immediate Internet connection to get to these page online!

- Select your wireless network, make sure to put check mark for "Automatically connect to this network".

- Then click to "Advanced Settings", mark up "Use Encryption" and put your WPA or WEP password in the field just below it. If you use MAC filter wireless security, then just omit this step.

- Press "Connect".

4. Go to System > Preferences > Sessions. In the "Startup Programs" tab, click the "Add" button. Give it some name ("Wireless Manager" or "Wicd"). In the command field enter "/opt/wicd/tray.py".

5. Go to System > Administration > Login Window > Security and enable "Automatic Login", close and rock and roll!"

Thanks a lot. Works like a charm.

[DJ_Peng]

I saw that, but I'm not sure if it's what I need since I don't have a wireless network. I simply want to stop Evolution from asking for my password on my computer with autologin. (I'm the only one who uses this box so I don't need the added security of entering my password on boot.) Can someone tell me if this would work for me before I go through the hassle of installing something that may do nothing to resolve my issue?

[Grolmania]

This may be a bit too simple, but I'd just like to mention it for completeness. My computer did not start asking for the keyring password until I enabled my first password keyring item named "default." By simply removing this item, "default" form the keyring item list, the annoying screen stopped appearing at computer start-up. Then if keyrings are required to be stored, I simply do not give a password to be used. The "default" keyring item is still created once again; but, no screen ever pops up at start-up asking for a password. Obviously there is no password protection if you use this method.

[tekknokrat]

If you use another dm like slim, it suffices to copy the gdm entry in /etc/pam.d dir to slim.

cd /etc/pam.d
cp gdm slim

After restart you also wont be asked for keyring-password anymore.
Works at least in intrepid.

[rjg_1966]

Far easier solution is to reset your password to blank (on Intrepid 8.10):

Do a search (Places / search) for Seahorse (on file system)
Start up Seahorse
Select Edit/Preferences
Select default and select change unlock password
after entering your odl password, for new password just hit line return twice
there will be a warning message that security is low, but this will allow you to connect to Wifi without problem at boot (without being asked!).

Just dont save your other passwords on this keyring if you dont want anyone to access eg your emails!

[dwieeb]

Hi I'm getting an error when I try to configure --prefix blah blah

I've installed all the needed packages but I keep getting this error:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
configure: error: cannot run /bin/bash ./config.sub

Anyone know whats going on?

[Dec0594]

Ok so i follow the code all the way and right when i type in the code i get this:

.......@.......-desktop:~/pam_keyring-0.0.8$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
configure: error: cannot run /bin/bash ./config.sub
.......@......-desktop:~/pam_keyring-0.0.8$



what an i doing wrong?? ssoooo frustrating

[surre_sprett]

Hi, don't know whether this is solved or not, but your problem is that the symbolic links pointing to config.guess, config.sub, and ltmain.sh are broken..

I just moved these files to a new folder, and in a terminal typed in:

/pam_keyring-0.0.8$ ln -s /usr/share/libtool/config/ltmain.sh
/pam_keyring-0.0.8$ ln -s /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess
/pam_keyring-0.0.8$ ln -s /usr/share/libtool/config/config.sub