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Stratoblaster

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Registered: 2018-12-04

Posts: 60

[RESOLVED] LightDM to Startx: Gnome keyring prompts for credentials

Hi again!

Now that I have moved away from LightDM in favor of startx, accessing gnome keyring is not as seamless as it was via lightdm. I tinkered with using export/eval in my .bashrc file (see below)

eval $(/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=pkcs11,secrets)
export GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL GNOME_KEYRING_PID

As I have read this should allow the non-prompting and auto unlock of the keyring on login. I know that if I blank out the password for the keyring via seahorse, it will halt the one time pop up on login but there are ramifications to that. I don't mind passing the creds (yes, the login password and  keyring pass are the same) on each reboot/login but would be nice to have it work as it does with either lightdm or gdm.

UPDATE:
Reviewing the wiki, it appears I did not have the pam bits in place in the file:  /etc/pam.d/login
and removed the above lines from the .bashrc and put the following:

eval $(/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=pkcs11,secrets,ssh)
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK

in my .xinitrc before the exec i3

Marking as resolved

thanks for help!
/sb

Last edited by Stratoblaster (2019-07-04 18:14:55)

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progandy

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Re: [RESOLVED] LightDM to Startx: Gnome keyring prompts for credentials

You have to start the gnome keyring in your pam session. If you don't use a display manager, then you have to add it to /etc/pam.d/login I think.

Edit: You found it as well

Last edited by progandy (2019-07-04 18:15:37)

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Stratoblaster

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From: Earth

Registered: 2018-12-04

Posts: 60

Re: [RESOLVED] LightDM to Startx: Gnome keyring prompts for credentials

Indeed - I was missing a few bits. all is working perfectly now. This setup is working exactly as I wanted it to and loving it!

Thank you for the feedback!

/sb

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