[colug-432] KDE and kwallet pain

[Vince Herried]

Several articles discuss setting up KDE and various display managers so
that it automagically opens the wallet at login using pam.
Then I would not have to enter the password to get wallet open.  The
problem there was none of the display manager settings were even close
to gdm.   In /etc/pam.d there are six gdm-? files  and I tried to plunk in
the settings they suggested in several, at one point breaking gdm :)



Hmmm found an entry where some one solved it by telling NetworkManager that
every one can access this device.
So I peek, don't find that option, but I do find a setting that allows me
to store the WiFI credentials in non-password location.
Dang I was tired when I was looking and missed that technique it seems to
work.


KDE say she is 4.14.8.

---
Vince

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 4:02:28 PM EST, Vince Herried wrote:
> > I'm on Ceetos 7 running kde.
>
> Which version of KDE? Given CentOS, I assume an old one....
>
> > I'm trying to get the wallet manager to open automagically at login
> > so I don't have to re-enter my password for the NetworkManager
> > to be able to get to my
> > known WiFi credentials.
>
> In all my years running KDE, the kwallet password prompt has appeared as
> soon as something (usually kmail in my case) needed access to it.
>
> > I find bunches of articles about using other than the gdm display
> manager.
> > None seem to work with the gdm display manager.
>
> I wouldn't expect the display manager to be relevant?
> The display manager handles login and starting KDE, while kwallet is after
> KDE starts.
>
> > Any one have any success?
> > Even yanking the passwords out and putting them in wpa_suplicant?
>
> On my laptop I'm using KDE on Arch (so a very recent KDE/Plasma 5), and the
> network connections configuration includes the option to store the wifi
> passwords unencrypted ("for all users"), rather than encrypted ("for this
> user only").
>
> I just checked my desktop machine (Ubuntu 14.04, KDE 4.14-ish), which of
> course doesn't have wifi set up, but it also appears to include the option
> to set up a wifi connection for all users, presumably unencrypted rather
> than in kwallet.
>
>
> -Rob
>
>
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