[kde-linux] Kwallet useless in 3.5.2?

[Paul Kaplan]

On Sunday 30 April 2006 13:09, Rich Gilson wrote:
> I'm running Mandriva 2006 with KDE 3.5.2 from SeerOfSouls and
> KwalletManager isn't working properly.
>
> When I boot up, Kwallet comes up and asks me for my password, just like it
> does in previous versions of KDE when something tried to access it, but
> then behind that window I see Kopete and Kmail prompting me for my password
> for every single account I have setup.
>
> I have tried putting in the password and clicking the "Save Password"
> checkbox only to have it prompt me again the very next time I log into KDE.
>  I've tried going into the configuration of both Kopete and Kmail and
> entering in the password on each of my account and checking the box to have
> the password saved.  Same thing.  I still get prompted for every single
> account.  Seeing as I get in excess of 10 prompts each time I log in, it
> gets VERY irritating. Especially seeing as I entered my password for
> KWallet for no apparent reason.
>
> I've tried blowing away my wallet and starting over.  Again, to no avail. 
> In fact, after I've gone through the effort of re-configuring all of my
> accounts and telling them to save my passwords, I can go into my wallet and
> see all the passwords saved there.  When I reboot and go into the wallet,
> it says that I have zero accounts setup for each of these programs.
>
> It's also worth noting that I am doing a proper shutdown to allow KDE to
> save any changes that have been made to my environment.  I'm at a loss as
> to what to try now.  Any advise will be greatly appreciated as I am fast
> losing my patience with Kwallet.
>
> Rich
It works fine for me w/ same software.  I had some other odd config problems, 
even moving from 3.5.1 > 3.5.2.  I solved them by backing up ~/.kde and 
allowing kde 3.5.2 to rebuild a new one.  It was a bit time consuming to 
recreate all the configs, but I see that as a small price.
Paul