Re: nm-applet requests secrets for non-secured network

[Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu>]

Fabulous, thanks for the pointer. I ended up having to delete 
~/.gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring and now it works fine.

Thanks,
Andy

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA



On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Jon Dowland wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:04:50AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > Here's the kicker: changing the AP to a different ESSID and
> > connecting to that one works fine! I therefore think there's
> > something stored on the laptop that is making it "guess" that it
> > needs security secrets. I've wiped out ~/.gconf/apps/nm-applet with
> > no luck.
>
> Sigh, network-manager caching fun. It's probably cached a
> secret for that ESSID (for whatever reason) in the gnome
> keyring. Use gnome-keyring-manager (if you're using stable)
> to find and delete the cached entry.
>
>
> --
> Jon Dowland