Gnome Keyring: Automatic Unlocking / PAM

Jonathan Ryshpan jonrysh at pacbell.net
Thu Oct 22 16:54:13 UTC 2009


I would like my gnome keyring to unlock at login, exactly as described
in the article with this title at URL:
         http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Pam

I am trying to get this to work in Fedora-11 running on an x86_64
system.  The configuration (automatically generated at installation
time, and which I have not changed) appears to be just as described on
this web page, with these exceptions:

     1. Both gnome-keyring-2.26.3-1.fc11.x86_64 and
        gnome-keyring-2.26.3-1.fc11.i586 are installed.  I think this
        was done automatically when I set the system up, and also it's
        normal to have important libraries installed in both the x86_64
        and i586 versions on x86_64 systems.  Will the duplication cause
        trouble?
     2. The web page says that /etc/pam.d/passwd should have a line like
            password    optional        pam_gnome_keyring.so
        in it.  On my system a similar line reads 
            -password   optional        pam_gnome_keyring.so
        Should the "-" sign be removed?

Thanks in advance - jon






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