NetworkManager is a great tool I have used to the wireless networks. It uses gnome keyring to securely store the passwords to your network connections. But the thing that bugged me the most was that on every reboot it popped up a window to put a password to unlock the default gnome keyring. I just hated to put in the password to unlock the keyring after putting the password to login to my account.
There were some guides which told how to get around the problem, but none of them worked for me. Except this one. But I did not like this approach as it involved storing your password in clear text and I’m not a fan of doing so.
So after some hit and trial I figured out that the solution wasn’t that complex , it was just that the guides I was following were outdated or they missed a seemingly unimportant but crucial step. So I am putting together the steps I followed for this just in case I forget. (These steps are Fedora specific)
This works only if your keyring password is same as your login password. If you have already set your default keyring password you may reset it by deleting the keyrings directory which would prompt you to enter a new password for keyring :
rm -rf ~/.gnome2/keyrings
First of all install the pam_gnome_keyring package :
sudo yum install -y pam_gnome_keyring
Then edit the login manager file :
for GDM
sudo vi /etc/pam.d/gdm
for KDM
sudo vi /etc/pam.d/kdm
Add the following lines
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so try_first_pass session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
The order in which these lines are inserted is important. So here is a working copy of the file:
#%PAM-1.0 auth [success=done ignore=ignore default=bad] pam_selinux_permit.so auth required pam_env.so auth substack system-auth auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so try_first_pass account required pam_nologin.so account include system-auth password include system-auth session required pam_selinux.so close session required pam_loginuid.so session optional pam_console.so session required pam_selinux.so open session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke session required pam_namespace.so session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start session include system-auth
Save the file and reboot.