[kde-linux] Kwallet useless in 3.5.2?

Rich Gilson signman359 at gmail.com
Wed May 3 13:22:13 UTC 2006


The problem is that I DID that when I moved to 3.5.2 because I was using the
3.4.2 that came with Mandriva 2006, so I don't understand why it's not
working.

Rich

On 5/1/06, Paul Kaplan <pkaplan1 at comast.net> wrote:
>
> 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
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