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. Do not confuse with GNOME Passwords and Keys, which has its own tag [seahorse]
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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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…
Hendrik
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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…
Jackie
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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…
winchendonsprings
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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…
Angelo
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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?
simplyme
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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…
qbi
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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…
Laurent
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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…
JLinden
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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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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?
jirislav
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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.
Fred Campos
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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?
lofidevops
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