Re: Security question regarding hiding the WIFI configuration username and password

2015-06-17 Thread Barry Titterton
On 16/06/15 14:15, Marc Tremblay wrote: > Good morning, > > > > At our school board we have been converting all our older technology to > Lubuntu. Our network manager has brought up a problem that he views as a > security risk. He is not familiar with Linux and does not really like > having the

RE: Security question regarding hiding the WIFI configuration username and password

2015-06-16 Thread Peter Golis
sted workarounds wil provide clean solution.     Peter.   __ Od: Marc Tremblay Komu: Peter Golis , "'lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com'" Dátum: 16.06.2015 16:48 Predmet: RE: Security question regarding hiding the WIFI c

RE: Security question regarding hiding the WIFI configuration username and password

2015-06-16 Thread Marc Tremblay
7; Subject: Re: Security question regarding hiding the WIFI configuration username and password Hello Marc, Did you had try to setup WiFi network manually without use of graphical network manager? This will avoid readability of password/passpharse if configuration will be readable only by OS

RE: Security question regarding hiding the WIFI configuration username and password

2015-06-16 Thread Marc Tremblay
] Sent: June-16-15 9:40 AM To: Marc Tremblay Cc: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Security question regarding hiding the WIFI configuration username and password You might want a Key Manager. It stores the ciphered passwords to use later on... I know there is gnome-keyring for Gnome and

Re: Security question regarding hiding the WIFI configuration username and password

2015-06-16 Thread Peter Golis
Hello Marc, Did you had try to setup WiFi network manually without use of graphical network manager? This will avoid readability of password/passpharse if configuration will be readable only by OS.   Peter.   __ Od: Marc Tremblay Komu

Re: Security question regarding hiding the WIFI configuration username and password

2015-06-16 Thread Andre Campos Rodovalho
You might want a Key Manager. It stores the ciphered passwords to use later on... I know there is gnome-keyring for Gnome and kwallet for KDE. I guess it is opitional to use gnome-keyring with network-manager (nm-applet)... I could not find anything about activating it, googling it I only see peop