I'm not sure how this system works but as far as I understand, Network Manager asks for wireless password in Gnome Keyring. Gnome Keyring asks user to enter his/her keyring password and then grants or denies its access from keyring depending if the password was valid or not (or user simply denies access).
Would it be possible to modify/develop Gnome keyring to support checksums (or some kind of signatures?) as authentication method. ie. NM asks for permission to read password from Gnome Keyring. First time G. Keyring asks 'NM wants to access Gnome keyring. Enter your password to grant access.' User simply enters his/her password and THEN makes the choice if he/she wants to give NM a permission to auth on its own (by signature or checksum). If user ticks that box, keyring adds this software (its checksum) to the 'trusted' list. This is just plain brainstorming, because I don't personally have much of an experience in programming. -- Wifi auto-connection asks for keyring password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/388593 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
