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(Gnome) that facking keyring app... (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 days ago by GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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So, i have been a Linux only user for about a year now I think. I went with bazzite, and am quite happy so far, i haven't yet managed to brick anything and almost everything I want to do is easily done.

However, there is the keyring app that gives me nothing but grief. Supposedly it stores login credentials for applications on the system. Practically, it does whatever the fuck it wants, and I have no idea why.

Randomly, on every system boot, it asks me to create a new keyring. Doesn't access already stored info, doesn't store afterwards entered credentials properly either. Ultimately it doesn't work for me at all.

...or so you would think. Sometimes, for no discernible reason, it works as expected. No keyring creation prompt, no manual typing of my vpn credentials. It has them stored, reads them properly, and connects the vpn automatically and quietly in the background just as I set it up and want to behave.

But anytime I get used to it just working as expected it goes back to a period of constant password typing and dozens upon dozens of (empty) duplicate entries in its credential list.

What the fuck is going on with that damn app, and how do I fix it?

Thanks in advance

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

AFAIK this app uses your login password to decrypt if available. if you have set the PC to some sort of passwordless login, it can't decrypt and if you save a password in that state it becomes a different keyring. only one key ring can be default though and thus starts the battle of keyrings

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

It's been weird like that for as long as I've been daily driving Linux. I typically use either Cinnamon or XFCE, so I always figured it just didn't like the cross-DE thing, but overall it's always seemed like a mess to me.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I used to have weirdness with it as well, but its gone away lately. Very frustrating.

Wild guess, but is your home on a separate disk/partition and getting mounted late or something?

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

I do have two mounted extra drives but the os is on the main one. But perhaps I can experiment a little with that, sounds a likely as anything else to be the culprit

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 2 days ago

Try to note which apps aren't working with the keyring. There might be a link between them.

Also, as somebody else pointed out: do any of the keyrings lack a password?

Then, how long is the keyring supposed to be open? And do you have a default keyring configured?

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