[CALUG] Question on nm-applet

[John Alan Hastings]

Back in the days of SysV Unix, we had nagging stuff that forced us to
change our passwords every month whether we wanted to or not.  Now, we
own the boxes which means we are free to keep the same password forever.
We know it is not a good idea, but, well, you know, we are human.

I finally did what I should have done, and upgraded passwords on all
systems (and yes, I got some complaints).

The big complaint is that on some older systems, Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS) the
password on nm-applet (which holds the keys for the connection to the
wireless router) seems to be the old password.  Before the passwords
were changed, it automatically connected with no operator intervention.
 Now, it pops up a screen asking for the password.  It accepts the old
password.

It also seems that the connection with the wireless router is done, not
at boot time, but when the first user logs in through the gnome desktop.
 If I log in using ssh over the local, wired net, wlan0 is not up.  The
implication is that nm-applet has more than one password on it since the
first user to log in brings up the connection.

My question is, does anyone know how to update the password(s) on the
nm-applet.

P.S., this is not a problem in Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS).

Thanks,

Alan

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