GNOME Keyring is a daemon application designed to take care of the user's security credentials, such as user names and passwords. The sensitive data is encrypted and stored in a keyring file in the user's home folder. The default keyring uses the login password for encryption, so users don't need to remember yet another password.
Questions tagged [gnome-keyring]
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How to recover/reset forgotten Gnome Keyring Password?
I am on Ubuntu and I have forgotten the password for my Gnome Keyring (yes, stupid me, I know). Any way I can get it back? I have already looked at this link, but it says it's not possible if my home directory is encrypted and unfortunately my home…
Nitin Venkatesh
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How to disable the "unlock your keyring" popup?
I read through all the related answers, but they do not apply to Ubuntu 14.04.
I have no .gnome2 folder and no Passwords and Encryption keys item in the system settings. I tried to crawl through every possible menu, but I could not find out how to…
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What is the correct way to use git with gnome-keyring and http(s) repos?
Currently, whenever I git pull or git push to a http(s) repository, I get the following:
$ git pull
Username for 'https://gitrepos.reposdomain.com': me@mydomain.com
Password for 'https://me@mydomain.com@gitrepos.reposdomain.com':
This is ok for…
tudor -Reinstate Monica-
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Wine can't find gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so
I am trying to start a program using wine on Ubuntu LTS 12.04 64 bit
When I do this, I get the following error message...
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux->gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot open…
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Use fingerprint authentication not only for login
I'm on 18.04 and have successfully enabled fingerprint login. I would like to use my fingerprint not only to login but if possible also to:
Authenticate in the terminal when I do a sudo command
Authenticate in Gnome (i.e. when installing an…
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Why do I get this warning from Gnome keyring in Xubuntu?
I have installed xubuntu-desktop ontop of a stock Ubuntu installation.
When using ssh, or more specifically git, I always get this warning
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-IVaeDO/pkcs11: No such file or directory
I have…
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How can import private key and certificate to seahorse in Ubuntu 18.04
I'm trying to import a certificate into seahorse/gnome-keyring on Ubuntu 18.04, but the seahorse gui application won't let me, the 'import' button is greyed out:
Screenshot
As seen in the screenshot, mouse hovering the "import" button shows the…
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What is the "keyring" or "keychain"?
Can someone please explain what Ubuntu's keychain or keyring is, as well as use cases for it?
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Gnome keyring daemon not starting up properly
Since a few days ago my Gnome-keyring daemon hasn't been starting up properly.
After logging in:
ps aux | grep keyring
user 3496 0.0 0.0 214408 15800 ? SLl 13:30 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login
Apps complain…
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How to disable GNOME keyring?
I want to disable GNOME keyring globally on my machine. So I deleted the lines
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
in /etc/pam.d/gdm. It seems to me that this has no effect. When I…
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Is Gnome keyring safe?
I've always read keyring like Gnome-keyring is safe way to save credentials. I don't understand it. If I open my Gnome-keyring in my Ubuntu Desktop, I can right click any entry and click show password and it will show the password :O. My point is if…
Animesh
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Unlock keyring with fingerprint reader on login
I recently bought a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E420s, which comes with a fingerprint reader. I have installed the fingerprint-gui and libbsapi to get it fully working (make: UPEK).
Is there a way to unlock the keyring on login using the fingerprint…
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SVN and GNOME Keyring
How to fix the following issue:
$ svn update
Password for 'default' GNOME keyring:
svn: GNOME Keyring is locked and we are non-interactive
I have googled around but can't seem to find a satisfactory answer.
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How do I back up and restore Passwords and Keys?
I am installing Ubuntu on a new machine. How can I back up all the entries in Passwords and Keys (aka Seahorse aka GNOME Keyring), so I can transfer them to the new machine?
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How do I change the default keyring password?
When I log in & the gnome-keyring-daemon is running, then I'm prompted to unlock all passwords stored in the so called Default keyring using some password I've picked before.
How can I change the password I've picked?
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