On Sat 14 May 2016 at 05:27:06 (+0200), Bhasker C V wrote: > I am finding it difficult to settle on a good network manager which > can work for my case > > 1. My home dir is luks/ext4 and mounted manually after logging in for > the first time > 2. My GUI is started after mounting my home dir and by manual startx only > > I could never get my network manager to store passwords in the user dir. > I do not like the passwords stored in > /etc/NeworkManager/sytem-connections with plain passwords visible so > anybody can open them if they have physical access to the machine/disk > (usb live stick etc., ) > > If I pull up the properties of nm-applet and change the option to > "Store password only for this user", nm-applet does not connect since > the keyring is no automatically unlocked due to startx > > Can anyone help me with fixing this network-manager so the passwords are > stored per-user in my luks home rather than /etc/... OR tell me how to > enable nm-applet to automatically trigger opening gnome-keyring ?
Like Hans, I use wicd (wicd-curses) because I only run a window manager. These suggestions are completely untested but might be worth a shot. You could create /home/wicd/ and copy /etc/wicd/* into it, then move /etc/wicd to /etc/wicd-preserve and create a symlink /etc/wicd -> /home/wicd If it all still works like that, shred and remove /etc/wicd-preserve. The main issue AFAICT is making the wicd-daemon start only after /home is mounted (and stop appropriately if you want to unmount it again). I don't know systemd well enough to know if that's trivial or hard. But the main thing is that it puts wicd/*.conf safely onto your encrypted /home. You might be able to coerce NM in the same way; I have no idea. Cheers, David.
