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In response to: Gnome's cool features : gnome-keyring & pam

sybille [Visitor] — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:37:23 +0000

Hi,
Just a note to say thank you for this post. It's very useful information.

I really like your plan to go into detail about some different optional features for Gentoo's Gnome users in future posts, too.

Also, thanks so much for getting Gnome 2.20 out so quickly, it's been great!

In response to: Gnome's cool features : gnome-keyring & pam

R CARDONA [Member] — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:46:06 +0000

I'm not using seahorse and I'm not planning on using it anytime soon. I'll leave the writing of that particular article to you ;)

In response to: Gnome's cool features : gnome-keyring & pam

Gilles Dartiguelongue [Visitor] — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:24:43 +0000

seahorse-agent + keychain is also a good combo for this since the keyring would be able to keep your ssh passphrases for you and it would be all integrated in your session (and would still work with a remote shell as pam_ssh can do).

I promised I would write a proper gentoo doc asap to dang but if you feel crazy, you could check the seahorse-agent documentation on upstream's wiki.

In response to: Gnome's cool features : gnome-keyring & pam

welp [Visitor] — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:36:29 +0000

pam_ssh is also really quite cool if you use ssh keys for authentication. Setup your keys to use the same passphrase/password as your login, and setup the pam_ssh stuff in the same way as for pam_gnome_keyring, and you'll be sorted. You can also set it up in such a way that gdm or whatever will bring up a separate prompt during login if your ssh passphrase is different to your login password/passphrase. (In fact, rather than deleting all your keyrings, you can do the same with pam_gnome_keyring). It is also possible to change the gnome keyring's master password: System -> Preferences -> Encryption Preferences -> GNOME Keyring.