remove kwallet on installation from liveKDE

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#1

Hi,
I have a lenovo laptop currently running a 13.1x64 on the disk installed from the liveDVD.
This machine(s10-3t) doesn’t come with a DVD ,so i installed the live from a USB-stick.

My problems are:

  1. I want to get reed of kwallet,since the wi-fi signal comes and go and i don’t want to give a password every few secs , i tried in the past to remove it,but that it’s messing up with the stored passwords in the networking application.
  2. i want to change the password of root but that doesn’t seems possible from yast while i am login.

And another, thing if i will do a update from a DVD using a USB disk reader i will have automatic configuration of the wi-fi, in a clean install on the past it seems to me that i didn’t had.

#2

You cannot remove kwallet. It is part of kdebase4-runtime which is necessary if you want to use KDE.

But kwallet’s point is to not have to enter passwords all the time.
If you don’t want to enter a password to open the wallet, just set an empty one and you will not be asked again.
To do that, run “kwalletmanager” (or click on “Launch Wallet Manager” in “Configure Desktop”->“User Account Details”->“KDE Wallet”) and change it there.

That said, you can disable kwallet completely in “Configure Desktop”->“User Account Details”->“KDE Wallet”.
But I don’t see the point.

NetworkManager does provide the option to store the password in a plain text file, not in kwallet, see “Other” in “Manage Connections”.
Or if you configure your wireless connection as “system connection”, kwallet is not used anyway, as the connection is established during boot already.

  1. i want to change the password of root but that doesn’t seems possible from yast while i am login.

Run this:

su
passwd

But it should be possible in YaST as well.

And another, thing if i will do a update from a DVD using a USB disk reader i will have automatic configuration of the wi-fi, in a clean install on the past it seems to me that i didn’t had.

Probably kernel-firmware is not installed automatically? This is necessary for certain wireless devices.
And of course your newly created user will not have the wireless connection configured for the LiveCD user, as it is a different user.
A “system connection” should be carried over though.

#3

Please do not ask several questions in one thread. They belong to different (sub)forums. Also people reading your title will not see your other questions and maybe skip reading your thread at all because the do not know about Kwallet.

Why don’t you configure Kwallet so that it stays open as long as you are loged in? Then you do not have to provide the password every time again. There are all sorts of options to configure when you right click on the icon.

You can change the root password from a root session:

henk@boven:~> su -
Wachtwoord:
boven:~ # passwd
New password:

etc.

#4

Thank you for answering to all my questions,
I am just trying not to post new silly questions here and there ,but you are right.

The thing with the root password is solved.

About kwallet i will see ,the last password manager that i was using was CASA on novelSUSE desktop 10(years old now…perhaps i will post something about CASA in the future ), i need some protection so i don’t want to disable it or to use it with no password at all,i will thing about it.

For the issue with the wi-fi i don’t see why not wait for the next stable release.
Thank you.

#5

Or start a thread in the Wireless forum. Providing of course the information needed (see the “stcky” threads at the top of that forum.

#6

I will do it when i will return at my city in a few days (10 or so),for now i don’t have the manual(chip model,driver) neither the internet always on.
But i have the time,so maybe i will give a try,while i am stuck here
(the machine is 4 years old and the brand well known)

#7

o.k. i posted it ,i hope in the wright way.

#8

Set all of your connections to be “System Connections” (sometimes called “Share connection with all users”). After that, you won’t need a kwallet password for WiFi.

OR

In kwallet settings, uncheck the box “Close when last application stops using it”. That should keep kwallet open until you logout then login again.

#9

This one last thing solved my problems for now
Is there a way not to be asked for password from kwallet,when i login again with the same account?

thank you all

#10

Yes.
Set an empty password, as I wrote… :wink:
Or disable it completely, but you cannot use it any more then to store passwords of course (doesn’t matter for NetworkManager’s system connection).

There is a way to automatically unlock the wallet on login via PAM, similar to how it is done with gnome-keyring:
https://www.dennogumi.org/2014/04/unlocking-kwallet-with-pam/

But I never tried this myself.

The mentioned pam_kwallet is available as package here, so you don’t have to compile it yourself:
http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Alemmy04&package=pam_kwallet

As I understand it, you would have to upgrade to the latest KDE4 though for this to work.
See here if you want to do that:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:KDE_repositories#Current_KDE_SC_release

#11

This is a nice homework:O
So i will give a try when i will return to my desk:)

Thank you.