automatic logon: option to clear login.keyring password

[wallydallas]

Binary package hint: gksu

bug: You are still prompted for a password even If you use System-Administration-Login Window, and go to the security tab, and click the checkbox next to enable automatic logon for a user.

expected: Clicking the checkbox next to automatic logon should boot the computer direct into a desktop and have WiFi connected with the previously used and cached password.

STEPS
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- get a fresh Ubuntu 8.04 machine installed from CD on to a computer with working wifi hardware
- reboot, logon as the user you created on install ( for example fred )
- connect to a WiFi hotspot that requires a password. Mine uses 64 bit WEP ASCII
- Surf the web to ensure it's all good.
- Shut down, leave off for 10 seconds, boot, logon, notice WiFi is working automatically
- System-Administration-Login Window, and go to the security tab, and click the checkbox next to enable automatic logon for the user fred
- Shut down, leave off for 10 seconds, boot, see desktop, see the following error
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The Application 'nm-applet' (/usr/bin/nm-applet) wants to access to the default keyring, but it is locked

- If you click deny, no WiFi access, if you type in fred's logon password, and click ok, you get WiFi

This is a major pain for schools that want to have a machine boot to a desktop and not expect the user to deal with any passwords or headaches. A visitor might not know weather to hunt down Fred's password, or the WiFi password.

no workaround that I can find using google. Nothing in the Apps-Accessories-Password manager will change this for the better.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 4 12:52:35 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gksu
Package: gksu 2.0.0-5ubuntu3.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gksu
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-27-generic i686

[ceg (ceg)]

It asks because your "login" keyring is encrypted with your password.

To disable that prompt, the gdm configuration could have another option to clear (remove) the passwort from your "login" keyring.

[ceg (ceg)]

The option should of course have a fat warning that all your passwords will be saved on disk in plain text, if you don't have an encrypted filesystem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report but that's not a bug, the wifi protection is different from the login

[ceg (ceg)]

Though, it's an annoying behavior that no keyrings are not opened with autologin.

A wishlist item, for a checkbox to clear the password from the "login" keyring for autologin, seems adequate.

[ceg (ceg)]

@wallydallas
With the keyring tool under System->Preferences you can change the password for the "login" keyring to an empty string. Be aware though that the keys in this keyring will then be on your harddrive in plain text, readable for anybody who has access to it.

[ceg (ceg)]

Can you make this wishlist?
The importance option is not accessible for me.

[wallydallas (jrowe)]

Yes. I will make this a wish list item. I'd like Ubuntu to copy the
behavior of Mac OSX and Win 7.

wishlist: If you boot to your computer to the desktop without a
password, any connections to wi-fi hot spots that previously worked,
should remain working, all without any dialogs or password prompts
from the OS. Both win 7 and Mac OS 10.6 have keyrings, but they
don't seem to trigger on a cold boot and auto connect to wifi hotspots.

and yes thanks for the kind words, I have learned to clear out the
keyring password, and yes, it leaves the other keyring passwords very
hackable, but most friends whom I setup with Ubuntu don't use the
keyring for anything else.

ok, gotta run at the moment. joe

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>Can you make this wishlist?
>The importance option is not accessible for me.
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