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Subject: Re: [kde-linux] kde-linux Digest, Vol 152, Issue 2
From: James Tyrer <jrtyrer () earthlink ! net>
Date: 2016-04-05 20:37:36
Message-ID: 57042210.4010307 () earthlink ! net
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On 02/09/2016 05:21 AM, David Baron wrote:
>> * * * * *
>> The short version is, kwallet is only used if you're using a kde-based
>> app, kmail, konqueror, etc, that uses it to store login credentials for
>> various generally online accounts other than your system-level user
>> account, which is still managed using normal *ix style user
>> authentication mechanisms, not kwallet. If you're not using any of
>> those, or if for instance you use konqueror but don't have any site
>> logins stored on it, then kwallet is pretty well useless, since that's
>> what it does, store credentials for such mostly online accounts. If you
>> start using a kde-based app that in turn uses kwallet to store such
>> account credentials, you should start using kwallet automatically.
> In kde3 and kde4, I did not NEED kwallet. The passwords were stored in kmail
> itself. Newer kmail version ask for it every time.
>
> Now I do not mind entering them once on start, but everytime I get an network
> connection expiry (as of yet found no fix to that!!) so reconnects, I have to
> enter them once again. It can go quite a while without or I can have this
> every few minutes which makes this a giant pain in the ...
>
> I tried redoing the mail accounts, got the "kwallet not active" dialog,
> regardless of the status shown on the manager, et al.
I presume that you have initialized Kwallet by having it generate a
digital key and providing a pass phrase to access that key. After that,
there is probably some place in the configuration that you have to
option to check a box to use Kwallet. I am not sure where that is since
I am in the middle of upgrading.
-- James Tyrer
Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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James Tyrer
Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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