[GNOME3] Keyring password requested after setup Empathy account

tom.yan · 2011-04-29 11:23:39

The situation is like this:

When I set up an account in system settings for Empathy
It asked me (twice) for the password of keyring access
Then whenever I restart my computer
the password is asked during login
(note:I make my system account automatically login)

I am not sure if this is a bug or setting problem
as it seems that there is no similar bug report and I am quite a newbie to Arch Linux (or just Linux)

But I notice that there have been some problem with Empathy
at the time i start to use GNOME3
Empathy seemed cannot remember the account info I entered once the computer is restarted
then after some updates it became the keyring problem
yet the situation is a bit different before
when setting up the account it asked for the password many times (4-5 as I remember)
(i don't exactly remember what it asked, but at least one of those 4-5 times includes asking for a new password for the keying created)
And the message is strange that it said the the keyring accessing/creating is "xxx"

P.S. I've only installed telepathy-butterfly as I only use Empathy for MSN

Last edited by tom.yan (2011-04-29 12:27:17)

wonder · 2011-04-29 11:57:40

i guess you are not using gdm. when is used, the keyring is automatically unlocked at login and you don't have to type it at all

tom.yan · 2011-04-29 12:24:19

no, i am using gdm (the one in testing repo)
but you remind me one thing
now no matter for the setup part or login part it ask me for my user/root password (i am using the same one for both root and my general user account)
but before (an update of empathy, gnome-keyring, etc.), when i setup the account of empathy
it asked me to enter a new password for the keyring created(sorry i've made a mistake in the first post)
and when login, the message box includes options for the password but the "automatically unlock" one was grey
while now there is no any options at all

dimsuz · 2011-05-01 02:26:54

Exactly the same thing happens here (now that I'm updated to Gnome 3 and started using empathy): gdm is set up to do autologin, and some app (I take it to be empathy) is asking twice for a keyring password.

I also noticed "automatically unlock" option, and even selected it several times, but now I rebooted and for some reason it is grey. But it appears it didn't work anyway...

If anyone finds a solution please share it

Last edited by dimsuz (2011-05-01 02:28:02)

wonder · 2011-05-01 07:26:00

@dimsuz that's the problem. In autologin gdm doesn't automatically unlock it. It will be a huge mistake

dimsuz · 2011-05-04 10:59:25

Well, it doesn't
Didn't find a solution yet, will wait for 3.0.2 to see if this will get fixed.

One thing I thought about - can this be caused by some keyring related app which gets autostarted along with the session and maybe this app was a leftover from gnome2 and is not needed anymore? Can you imagine something like this?

z3nz0 · 2011-05-10 10:47:59

same issue here. any solution will be welcome

ugaciaka · 2011-05-10 19:20:32

Hi,

i use XFCE and I want try empathy. But Empathy want use gnome-keyring and ask password for this. I don't understand anything. I never configured gnome-keyring and never insert a password.

Existing a method to fork empathy from gnome-keyring?

I using XFCE and slim for login manager.

Tnx

MrSpecial · 2011-05-16 20:31:08

I had a similar problem using SLiM, the SLiM wiki page solved my problem.

z3nz0 · 2011-05-24 10:13:46

updated to today's latest emathy and keyring versions. still have password prompt and same issue. hope we could catch a solution. i have gdm and autologin enabled.

wonder · 2011-05-24 10:15:57

@z3nz0 what solution? that's how it suppose to work when autologin is involved but if you really really want it, diff /etc/pam.d/gdm and /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin

Last edited by wonder (2011-05-24 10:17:08)

z3nz0 · 2011-05-24 11:32:24

what do you mean with "diff"?
i would like to avoid password request at login due to empathy accounts.

that's my file contents:

-/etc/pam.d/gdm:
#%PAM-1.0
auth requisite pam_nologin.so
auth required pam_env.so
auth required pam_unix.so
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
account required pam_unix.so
session required pam_limits.so
session required pam_unix.so
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
password required pam_unix.so
session include pam_gnome_keyring.so
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start

-/etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin
#%PAM-1.0
auth requisite pam_nologin.so
auth required pam_env.so
auth required pam_permit.so
account required pam_unix.so
password required pam_unix.so
session required pam_limits.so
session required pam_unix.so
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start

dimsuz · 2011-05-25 10:17:29

He told us that we should try running a "diff" command that is able to report differences in files. Try running

diff -u /etc/pam.d/gdm /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin

and see the output.
I guess that wonder meant that if you don't want the current behaviour you can bring 'gdm-autologin' to the looks of 'gdm' file, but that implies some security risk because then anyone can turn on your computer and gain access to the keyring without any authentication

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[GNOME3] Keyring password requested after setup Empathy account

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