can someone point out on me how gnome-keyring works?

[Colin Walters]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
>
> But sinc e cron is all we
> have right now, if you need gnome-keyring from cron, you need to look
> up the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS Unix environment variable.  If none
> exists, then create your own session using dbus-launch, and
> gnome-keyring should be invoked through service activation when you
> try to talk to it.

Though thinking about this further, it's obviously not going to work
if you don't have a running session since you'll need the password for
gnome-keyring to be able to decrypt its database.  It's a pretty
complicated problem.  If the desktop had some way to know that you had
scheduled jobs, it would probably make sense for gnome-keyring to hang
around even after a session ends to provide passwords.  We also
*really* need to make the session bus per-uid looked up from the
kernel instead of based on an environment variable.