GNOME Keyring is a daemon application designed to take care of the user's security credentials, such as user names and passwords. The sensitive data is encrypted and stored in a keyring file in the user's home folder. The default keyring uses the login password for encryption, so users don't need to remember yet another password. Do not confuse with GNOME Passwords and Keys, which has its own tag [seahorse]
Questions tagged [gnome-keyring]
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How to disable the "unlock your keyring" popup?
I read through all the related answers, but they do not apply to Ubuntu 14.04.
I have no .gnome2 folder and no Passwords and Encryption keys item in the system settings. I tried to crawl through every possible menu, but I could not find out how to…
Martin Drozdik
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How to disable GNOME keyring?
I want to disable GNOME keyring globally on my machine. So I deleted the lines
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
in /etc/pam.d/gdm. It seems to me that this has no effect. When I…
qbi
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Exporting passwords
So, I'm doing a backup of my home folder from ElementaryOS (based on Ubuntu 10.10 I think) and got to the point where I wanted to find and save the hidden folder for my passwords... wifi ones and the like.
Well as I couldn't find it I searched…
AFD
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Gnome Keyring keeps asking for a password that doesn't exist
When ever I long into Ubuntu, I'm immediately presented with a dialogue that asks me to enter the password that will unlock Gnome Keyring.
However, I was never prompted to set this in the first place, and none of the passwords I've tried are…
user2405
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How can I know which application is asking me for my password?
I just updated Ubuntu. And immediately after I logged into my Ubuntu session, I got a prompt asking me for my password with the User Name field automatically filled with my Gmail email.
How can I figure out which application is asking me for my…
Dan
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How to Set password to open an application?
How to make an application like Gnote or Tomboy ask for a password when launching them from my user account.
seeker
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Getting junk data while storing and accessing key
I need some directions on the following. Please guide me through it:
Objective:
To store and access file encryption keys for a given user. Each file will have a separate encryption key. So, a user who wants to encrypt 10 files will have 10 different…
Piyush Kansal
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Ubuntu keyring resets automatically when I logout
As written in the Title, when I logout, and login my keyring password is getting reset to my user password after the next reboot.
I tried everything to fix this problem since I installed Ubuntu 12.10
Does anyone know how I can fix this problem,…
Marcus
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Reset Login Keyring?
Possible Duplicate:
How to recover/reset forgotten Gnome Keyring Password?
After upgrading from the previous LTS (10.04) to the current LTS (12.04) I got a warning that said my user account password does match the keyring password.
When I go into…
Kyle Brandt
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Problems with Keyring login
I have not been able to log in to keyring..I do not remember EVER having a Key Ring account..so how do I establish a password?
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Getting gnome keyring credentials on the command line, not knowing the SERVICE + USERNAME
I'm trying to programmatically get the key which my Chrome browser uses to encrypt its cookies. But whatever tool I consider, it appears that I need to know a service and a username (or an 'attribute' and 'value'). How can I find discover these…
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`gnome-keyring-daemon` hangs if I log out & then log in again
When I start my computer (an up-to-date Ubuntu 18.04), and log in and do a days work, everything's fine. I then log out, and leave the computer on while no-one logs in. The next morning I log in again, and gnome-keyring-daemon is running at 100%…
Amandasaurus
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