kwallet pam + networkmanager on live
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Description

because kwallet pam is disabled on autologin no wallet is created and when using plasma-nm to connect to a password protected wifi you'll get a kwallet setup query. this makes for poor UX and should be changed.

options are:

  • use casper to change the pam config to also allow pam kwallet on autologin
  • figure out how to disable kwallet for plasma-nm

possibly could even do both to be on the safe side

sitter created this task.Aug 20 2018, 9:37 AM
sitter triaged this task as Low priority.
sitter moved this task from Backlog to Later on the KDE Neon : bionic board.Aug 21 2018, 11:12 AM
sitter renamed this task from kwallet pam + networkmanager to kwallet pam + networkmanager on live.Sep 3 2018, 12:26 PM
jriddell moved this task from Later to Backlog on the KDE Neon : bionic board.Oct 3 2018, 9:07 AM
sitter closed this task as Resolved.Oct 9 2018, 1:30 PM
sitter claimed this task.

This has been resolved. Casper is now disabling kwallet which prevents plasma-nm from using kwallet. a casual code review suggests that applications using kwallet generally will and are expected to handle this correctly (to them it looks like kwallet is not available) and work correctly. I've tested plasma-nm and kio/sftp and they both work as expected. This means passwords are potentially not stored or stored unencrypted, this shouldn't be a huge deal though as the live sessions are not persistent