[nzlug] Cacheing passwords.

[Robin]

On Friday 03 November 2006 16:06, cattz at orcon.net.nz wrote:
> With all respect Robin were you actually trying to be helpfull here?
Yes :)

> firestarter, kuroo and kwallet all pop up kdesu box asking for the root  
> password on boot. Just wondering how to have these apps run at boot with  
> out password confirmation?
Firestarter should only require the root password to make changes. If its 
starting when you login, check you don't have your session saved with it 
being launched or something. When you make changes with it, it should save 
them to the iptables rules. These changes should get automatically loaded 
when your system is starting up (i.e. not when you log in). It's been a very 
long time since I've played with it, but I'm reasonably sure this is how it 
works. Any other way, and it's useless (a firewall starting up after your 
system has started and networking has come up gives a fairly sized window for 
attack. Even Windows didn't do that for very long). So I think that the 
firestarter window that you are seeing is the change-settings window.

I looked up kuroo...it would require the root password, but there's no need 
for it to be starting on login either. You should only launch it when you're 
going to use it. I suspect that you have a saved session with that launched, 
too.

kwallet has nothing to do with root. It doesn't require the root password. It 
requires _a_ password, but it's completely independent of any other password 
you use for anything. The purpose of kwallet is to store the passwords you 
use in things like konqueror, kmail, kopete, and so on, so they can be 
automatically retrieved by those programs with you only having to remember 
one password. Like firefox does with its password saving thing. It'll say 
things like 'The application 'blah' has requested to open the wallet 
'kdewallet'. Please enter the password for this wallet below.'. This password 
is used to encrypt the password store.

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