Is kwallet required for secure Wifi?
I do not like password managers.
I managed to get the kwalletmanager window displayed, and disabled kwallet, I thought. When I edit my WiFi connection, I keep getting a message that "The application 'KDE Daemon' has requested to open the KDE wallet". Is it required? Is it hard-coded? How do I get rid of it? Annoyed, Jim |
WPA2 or WEP passwords have to be stored somewhere to access a secured WiFi connection, and that place should be a secure place. Hence, KWallet.
I don't know why you "don't like password managers," because I could not think to live without them. Sensitive information must be stored in such a way that it cannot be trivially accessed by snooping around on your hard-drive ... which a Java or JavaScript application could be doing while you're visiting your ;) favorite p0rn web-site ;) or what-have-you. Any file which contains your user-name probably contains your password too. You actually want to store all of this sort of information in a cryptographically secure place, i.e. a wallet system. |
Good points.
However if a password manager handles my passwords so I only have to remember one, I become dependent on one machine. I don't much like that, and I do not trust the security of the 'Cloud'. |
Passwords to change WiFi connections have nothing to do with Password Managers, or wallets, or whatever.
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I didn't used to use password vaults because they were annoying, but I have become a confirmed user of keepassx. It's cross-platform, so, when I add something to the database, I can copy the database file to whatever computer I am using.
It even works on my Android with Keepassdroid. |
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