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Cosmin

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Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 248

nm-applet unable to unlock keyring

hi,

I use networkmanager and gnome with gdm autologin but nm-applet  ask for password to unlok the keyring every time I reboot. How can I fix this?

I tryed this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 72#p308072 but same result ...

Last edited by Cosmin (2009-04-23 09:47:07)

Cosmin

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Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 248

Re: nm-applet unable to unlock keyring

come on ... i need some help.

wisecapt

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From: Russia, St.Petersburg

Registered: 2009-03-02

Posts: 8

Re: nm-applet unable to unlock keyring

I can only confirm that. I tried to investigate the problem, but failed.

skottish

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Re: nm-applet unable to unlock keyring

This thread will fit better in the workstation section.

Cosmin

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Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 248

Re: nm-applet unable to unlock keyring

ok, but still waiting for some ideeas

roylez

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Registered: 2008-10-18

Posts: 6

Re: nm-applet unable to unlock keyring

for my case, nm-applet worked fine yesterday. After I changed my account password yesterday, it started to keep asking for my old password as the keyring....

wisecapt

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From: Russia, St.Petersburg

Registered: 2009-03-02

Posts: 8

Re: nm-applet unable to unlock keyring

I found out that pam_gnome_keyring module gets from gdm empty (NULL) password. It can be checked in the /var/log/auth.log file:

May 22 14:52:19 arch gdm-binary[4301]: gkr-pam: no password is available for user

...and in the gnome-keyring source code. Official gnome-keyring documentation contains some valuable information about this case:

# If gnome keyring was not started from the PAM module, the autostart desktop file will start a gnome-keyring-daemon properly. In this case the user will need to specify an unlock password for their keyring on its first use.

So it's normal behavior that gnome-keyring requests the password. Afterwards I read gdm 2.20 documentation where I found PasswordRequired option. I tried to enable the option, but nothing happened. At this point I ran out of ideas how to get gnome-keyring work correctly.

Last edited by wisecapt (2009-05-23 04:38:02)

ryooichi

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Registered: 2009-01-17

Posts: 15

Re: nm-applet unable to unlock keyring

I installed Seahorse (pacman -S seahorse) and then right clicked the "Passwords: default" entry, selected "Change Password", entered the old password (I had previously used the same as my system account password) and set it to be blank. Seahorse confirmed that I wanted to use a weak and insecure method... but guess what? Now it doesn't prompt me for the password!