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TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

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Imap password, automatism by polkit

Hi there,

I finally able to use kmail, but like Evolution and other PIM are asking the password to start to imap service.
I suppose that, for a kind of convenience, it's possible to automate the permission to do that service, by a polkit rule.

But I'm not familiar to write such rule and I hardly figure which process starts the akonadi imap service after user login.

EDIT

I followed the wiki and modified my files, but no success. Probably there's the fact that I use autologin by getty, so the pam rule may not have effect.

EDIT2

Further searching has led me to an improvement, but no success.

$ sudo journalctl -b 0 | grep pam_kwallet
feb 14 12:13:20 ArchFulvio login[579]: pam_kwallet5(login:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
feb 14 12:13:21 ArchFulvio login[579]: pam_kwallet5(login:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_open_session
feb 14 12:13:21 ArchFulvio login[579]: pam_kwallet5(login:session): pam_kwallet5: open_session called without kwallet5_key
feb 14 12:13:21 ArchFulvio login[579]: pam_kwallet5(login:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred

$ cat /etc/pam.d/login 
#%PAM-1.0

auth       requisite    pam_nologin.so
auth       include      system-local-login
# modified 14-02-25
auth       optional     pam_kwallet5.so
account    include      system-local-login
session    include      system-local-login
# modified 14-02-25
session    optional     pam_kwallet5.so auto_start force_run
password   include      system-local-login

$ cat /etc/pam.d/sddm
#%PAM-1.0

auth        include     system-login
-auth       optional    pam_gnome_keyring.so
-auth       optional    pam_kwallet5.so

account     include     system-login

password    include     system-login
-password   optional    pam_gnome_keyring.so    use_authtok

session     optional    pam_keyinit.so          force revoke
session     include     system-login
-session    optional    pam_gnome_keyring.so    auto_start
-session    optional    pam_kwallet5.so         auto_start

$ pacman -Q | grep -i kwallet
kwallet 6.10.0-1
kwallet-pam 6.2.5-1
kwalletmanager 24.12.2-1
signon-kwallet-extension 24.12.2-1

Following this page I reduced  the error, then I don't know how to pass kwallet5_key, yet.

Last edited by TheSaint (2025-02-14 04:34:34)

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