How do i use gnome-keyring without a password prompt? (not gdm pam)

Matthew Saltzman mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Fri Jan 18 21:44:52 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:34 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Mark wrote:
> 
> > I just got the keyring stuff working with gdm pam thanks to this link [1].
> > But now i'm wondering if it's possible to have the keyring manager but
> > without the password prompt. or even better, without any password at
> > all! So is that possible?
> 
> afaik, no.

gnome_keyring_pam is supposed to do this, but it's not working.  There's
a post in the archives about configuring it so it does work, but I
hadn't had a chance to try it.

The idea is, if you use your login password as your keyring password,
you won't be prompted.

Why would you want no password?

> 
> -- Rex
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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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