[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Create a default unencrypted keyring, OLPC #10290

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from Simon Schampijer's message of 2012-04-16 12:33:05 +0200:

> This patch does create an ununcrypted default keyring
> if there is not one available already. This will stop
> prompts for unlocking the keyring after logging into
> Sugar.
> 
> In GNOME the session manager deals with creating
> that keyring. In the OLPC images we do create a default
> keyring on image creation time (see olpc-configure), same
> is true for Soas. This patch does check/create the
> keyring on every Sugar run. The advantage is that
> for example installs the live image to a disk install
> using liveinst, or install Sugar from the Fedora installer
> without installing or ever running GNOME that workaround
> will work for them as well.

At least the patch description is too downstream-centric for my
taste. It also looks like something the distro X session scripts should
do, not sugar. It may be fine to include in sugar-emulator, because
we're setting up the X session manually there, without calling the
distro X session scripts.

IIRC, somebody mentioned (on IRC?) that this functionality is also
included in gnome-session. Replacing our ancient embedded copy of
gnome-session in sugar-toolkit with using upstream gnome-session would
do the trick as well then. I've been working with upstream on that for
some time. gnome-session can now properly run non-default (read
non-Gnome) sessions [1] and I have working sugar [2] and sugar-toolkit
[3] patches to make use of that facility. The only reason I've not
posted it for upstream (Sugar) inclusion is that gnome-session doesn't
provide API for Sugar to trigger Shutdown and Reboot without presenting
non-Sugar UI [4]. With the systemd support patch that landed recently
(99bb52c [5]), this hurdle is gone at least on systemd based systems
(i.e. Fedora).

Sascha

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633276
[2] https://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/silbe/commits/gnome-session
[3] https://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit/silbe/commits/gnome-session
[4] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575880
[5] https://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/99bb52c5dbea01a3ffc9b8821ec12af2536f76ca
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