Password lost on kernel upgrade
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Running 1.13-7.20091022svn.fc13 on Fedora 13 (64 bit).
It is set to save the password, which it does, but after I upgrade the kernel it asks for the password again. Then it remembers the password until the next kernel upgrade. Is this expected behaviour?
I wouldn't say it's a "100% desired" behaviour, but it's expected. If you look at <http://checkgmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/checkgmail/checkgmail?revision=47&view=markup#l157> you'll see that, for kind-of-encryption purposes, checkgmail stores your password with an uname-based encryption, so it's expected to be broken after a kernel upgrade...
I think you could address this by adding some parameters to the uname command in that line to prevent showing the kernel version, if you really want to avoid this situation, but remember it will give you a weaker encryption...