Vino requires interactive keyring unlocking on the local display

Bug #130545 reported by Oded Arbel
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
vino (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

The problem is that when specifying a password under the "remote desktop" preferences panel, whenever someone tries remotely to access the computer, vino attempts to open the GNOME keyring. If the keyring has yet to be opened, and interactive password dialog pops up on the local display and the remote login process is paused until the keyring password dialog is dismissed.

This problem makes vino useless as a remote control mechanism to allow a user to control her own computer remotely as normally a user would log in to her session and then go to another computer (possibly in a remote location) and try to login remotely. If the keyring password has not been entered yet, then the user would not be able to login remotely unless the computer is attended locally by a person who has the keyring password.

Steps to produce:
1. login to a new session
2. configure "remote desktop" to use a password and not to require confirmation
3. go to another computer and VNC to the first computer. After completing the password entry dialog, a keyring password dialog would pop up on the first computer and the VNC login would not complete until the keyring dialog is dismissed.

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Jonh Wendell (wendell) wrote :

Sebastien, do you remember our chat when i showed you this issue?
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344839#c19

Since vino was merged from debian, it has been compiled with --enable-gnome-keyring.

Changed in vino:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Right, I've just uploaded a new revision not using it

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

vino (2.19.5-0ubuntu2) gutsy; urgency=low

  * debian/rules:
    - don't use the gnome-keyring (LP: #130545)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:47:23 +0200

Changed in vino:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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