something like kdewallet for gnome

the_gripmaster · 02-26-2007, 02:21 PM

Is there any application to store sensitive info like passwords, credit card number for the GNOME desktop?

Thanks.

PTrenholme · 02-26-2007, 03:04 PM

Yes, but I use GNOME so seldom that I've forgotten its name. All I remember is that it pops up automatically when I need a WPA pass phrase to connect to a known access point.

ordinary · 07-24-2007, 12:08 PM

I think you may be looking for gnome-keyring-manager. I'm quite late to this thread, but I'd rather continue this one than start one anew.

The question I've got is, how does one use it? I've searched high and low, on this board and others, the man page, wikipedia, google, and elsewhere and I can't find any instruction on how to use gnome-keyring-manager.

I stare at it, click on it, type at it, and it remains inscrutable.

I've got version 2.18.0.

A little help? Anyone?

Thanks,
Phil

PTrenholme · 07-24-2007, 04:40 PM

As I said, I don't much use GNOME. But I just started a GNOME session, installed the gnome-keyring-manager and started it. When you start the manager, the screen has a "Help" button, or you should get the contents if you simply press F1.

(Note: When I tried this, the manager crashed because, I suspect, I've chosen to use KDE as my display manager rather than Fedora's default GDM, and whoever wrote the GNOME help system assumed that nobody would use any alternative display manager. Ah well, it's still great software at the price, eh?)

ordinary · 07-24-2007, 08:21 PM

Well, PTrenholme, the operative word there is "should". I agree, the help button should provide some help. Unfortunately, the entire content of Help is the single word, "Welcome". This is the case in version 2.18.0 on Ubuntu 7.04 and 2.16.0 in Fedora Core 6. That doesn't provide much clarification to me.

As I said, it is inscrutable, including no help.

Thanks anyway, though,
Phil