How do i use gnome-keyring without a password prompt? (not gdm pam)

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 23:01 +0100, Mark wrote:
> > > Well i'm the only user on this machine and i simply don't want to get
> > > prompted for a keyring password and i find it close to useless to have
> > > a password for it anyway.
> > >
> > > I simply don't want to get prompted about any password prompts other
> > > than the login one and the root password. all other password prompts
> > > (as far as i can think of) are pointless.
> > >
> > > In my case the keyring-manager is only being used for NetworkManager
> > > to make a wireless network connection.
> >
> > I understand not wanting to be prompted.  The fact that this hasn't been
> > fixed (and is a regression from pam_keyring in F7) is a minor annoyance,
> > but I agree it's an annoyance.
> >
> > But that's different from not wanting a password at all.  Most GNOME
> > apps that manage passwords (e.g., Evolution) seem to be moving to using
> > the keyring.  When more valuable keys are saved there, it doesn't seem
> > unreasonable to protect them even on a machine that you think is fairly
> > secure.
> 
> I agree that the usage of a "keyring" can be handy at times but the
> password manager (gnome keyring) should have the option to just work
> without a password prompt at all!
> 
> Lets take windows as a example in this case. when i make a wireless
> connection the first time i have to fill in a password for that
> connection (assuming it's password protected) but when i
> reboot/disconnect/whatever so that it needs to connect again it's not
> asking for the password at all and just connects. That behavior is
> what i would like gnome-keyring to have as well.

As I said earlier in the thread (since snipped):

        $ rpm -qi gnome-keyring-pam
        Name        : gnome-keyring-pam            Relocations: (not relocatable)
        Version     : 2.20.2                            Vendor: Fedora Project
        Release     : 1.fc8                         Build Date: Mon 26 Nov 2007 09:59:24 PM EST
        Install Date: Fri 07 Dec 2007 02:58:38 PM EST      Build Host: hammer2.fedora.redhat.com
        Group       : Development/Libraries         Source RPM: gnome-keyring-2.20.2-1.fc8.src.rpm
        Size        : 28760                            License: LGPLv2+
        Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 04 Dec 2007 04:53:11 PM EST, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
        Packager    : Fedora Project
        URL         : http://www.gnome.org
        Summary     : A pam module for unlocking keyrings at login time
        Description :
        The gnome-keyring-pam package contains a pam module that can
        automatically unlock the "login" keyring when the user logs in
        and start the keyring daemon.
        
But it's not working yet.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356931
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250147
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=312531


You could also try pam_keyring.  That worked in F7, but is supposed to
have been superseded by gnome-keyring-pam in F8.


-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
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