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aardwolf

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2005-07-23

Posts: 307

One wifi connection works without keyring, other requires keyring

I have wifi connection A and B reachable. I use NetworkManager for network

After a reboot, it connects fine to wifi A, but for wifi B it requires me to unlock keyring to be able to connect to that wifi

I would prefer it to use the method that wifi A uses, i.e. not use keyring (I don't like keyring in general, it tends to randomly pop up dialogs asking for a password without telling which application triggered it)

Some questions:

-how is the password of wifi A stored? Somehow it knows its password and connects to it without complaining with keyring related dialogs

-why are two different methods of storing the wifi password being used here?

-how can I make it not require keyring but use whatever method is used for wifi A instead to store wifi B's password?

To be clear, everything else about wifi A and B looks exactly identical, they both appear in the same list in the same UI's in archlinux (whichever the UI's that cinnamon and NetworkManager use, the one from the bottom right wifi icon, and the 'network connections' and 'network settings' dialogs)

Thanks!

Last edited by aardwolf (2025-05-31 21:24:34)

aardwolf

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2005-07-23

Posts: 307

Re: One wifi connection works without keyring, other requires keyring

I found one possible clue, one has 'store this password for all users', while the other has 'store this password only for the current user'

I've never seen that feature before but I assume it silently enabled this and is using it by default now while not yet when I configured the first wifi network...

-thc

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Registered: 2017-03-15

Posts: 927

Re: One wifi connection works without keyring, other requires keyring

I found one possible clue, one has 'store this password for all users', while the other has 'store this password only for the current user'

In the first case NetworkManager stores the passphrase inside the connection file under "/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections". In the latter case in your personal keyring.