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PopeRigby

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Registered: 2019-10-19

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[SOLVED] An application wants access to the keyring "Login"

I'm getting this popup in two specific situations, when I open the Tutanota desktop client, and when I click the "Open in Browser" button in FeedReader. For FeedReader, I have to close the application for the dialogue to show up again, and I have to click "Cancel" exactly 4 times before it stops popping up again. Here's a video of that happening. In the taskbar, the icon that pops up with the dialogue is labeled as "Access Prompt". I tried typing in my root and user password, but neither of those worked. I've checked KDE Wallet and I can't find any keyring named "Login".

Here's some other information that might be relevant:
Desktop environment: KDE Plasma
Plasma version: 5.17.5
Kernel version: 5.4.11.arch1-1

How can I get rid of this dialogue, and why is it showing up?

Last edited by PopeRigby (2020-01-16 19:05:30)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,318

Re: [SOLVED] An application wants access to the keyring "Login"

This is likely gnome-keyring, look in that direction: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Keyring

Also if you want to find out what kind of programs weird prompts like these belong to, install xorg-xprop and run xprop in a terminal  and click on the window in question, it's likely to give you more usable information.

PopeRigby

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Registered: 2019-10-19

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Re: [SOLVED] An application wants access to the keyring "Login"

This is likely gnome-keyring, look in that direction: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Keyring

It looks like you were right about that. I installed seahorse, and it shows two keyrings, both named 'Login'. First, why is GNOME Keyring managing some of my keyrings if I'm using KDE Plasma? Second, is it safe to get rid of these 'Login' keys?

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] An application wants access to the keyring "Login"

GNOME Keyring is managing some of your keyrings because the applications were either directly implemented against it, or more often develop against the libsecrets API (which if memory serves me right. was intended to be provided by Kwallet at some point or another, but it seems these efforts have stagnated) which is implemented by GNOME Keyring.

Unsure why you have a duplicate here, but getting rid of them and creating a new one of which you remember the password is likely to be useful.

PopeRigby

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Registered: 2019-10-19

Posts: 110

Re: [SOLVED] An application wants access to the keyring "Login"

I deleted both of them, and re-opened Tutanota. It prompted me to created a 'Default keyring', so I did that and it's not asking me for my password anymore, so I guess that's a good thing. Thanks.

P.S. I can't mark this as solved, because the title is already too long.

Last edited by PopeRigby (2020-01-16 17:34:01)

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2ManyDogs

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Re: [SOLVED] An application wants access to the keyring "Login"

P.S. I can't mark this as solved, because the title is already too long.

Please shorten the title so you can add [SOLVED].