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gomme-bidule

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[SOLVED] GNOME and oo7

Hello everyone,

In the release notes of GNOME 51 (available here: https://release.gnome.org/51/ ) is announced that oo7 may be used as secret store, in place of gnome-keyring. It seems that this is currently not reflected in GNOME provided by Arch Linux. Would it be possible to offer the choice between gnome-keyring and oo7? As far as I can tell, the change would concern GDM in particular. There exists upstream various pam config files, and some of them indeed enable optionally both oo7 and gnome-keyring (see for instance: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/tr … type=heads ).

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME and oo7

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/oo7/ reverse conflicts w/ gkr
What how and why do you think would not work?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Oo7#PAM_step ./. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME/Keyring#PAM_step ?

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gomme-bidule

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME and oo7

I would expect everything to work. However, at the moment the pam config files provided with the gdm package only contain configurations for gnome-keyring.
While upstream seems to provide pam config files with the correct configurations (allowing oo7 or gnome-keyring out of the box).

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME and oo7

The pam configs are provided upstream and discriminatory; GDM *only* changed the one for redhat, not those for other distros.

Their gitlab is frequently 406 so I can't see hether the commit message explains that.

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME and oo7

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/merge_requests/396
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/work_items/1095

wtf?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/co … a/pam-arch
@heftig originally submitted the pam configs 11 years ago but they've recently been patched by others - I've frankly no idea who maintains them (at GDM) but the way this would work is that the pam configs get patched at GDM and then the patches can be cherry-picked by the GDM archlinux package before/until the next upstream release

=> file a bug at GDM, this isn't exactly rocket science.

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gomme-bidule

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME and oo7

I see. Also, I have installed oo7 and modified the pam config files provided by gdm (in /usr/lib/pam.d/) and everything seems to work fine. Anyway, this post was simply to let the ArchLinux maintainers be aware of the new possibility to use oo7 with GNOME, as I thought something as to be done on the ArchLinux side.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME and oo7

this post was simply to let the ArchLinux maintainers be aware

That would be through https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … work_items - the BBS is a user-2-user helpdesk.

But as mentioned and while I don't understand the maintenance concept here (ie. why GDM is maintaining distro specific pam configs but punts to the distros to maintain them) at all: the patch needs to end up in GDMs gitlab first and foremost and turning one hard into two soft options really doesn't require any insight into the distros PAM stack.

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Cvlc

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME and oo7

How does this look ?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/merge_requests/409

gomme-bidule

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME and oo7

Thank you for sending this patch, which has already been merged!
I guess it means that future package versions of GDM in Arch Linux will make use of these pam configuration files.

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME and oo7

\o/
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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