Keyring Access??

[Derek Broughton]

Mike Adolf wrote:

> When booting my laptop (Feisty Fawn) I get a dialog stating:
> 
> "nm-applet wants access to keyring, but it is locked"
> 
> and requests the root password.
> 
> What is a keyring and how can I stop that dialog from coming up during
> boot? It started appearing after I got the wlan working.

The keyring contains your pass-phrases.  I guess you're using a WEP or WPA
encrypted WLAN.  Why that comes up before gnome starts, though, I can't
say.
-- 
derek