Thanks for you reply Mark. The way you put it makes sense. I guess the option is whether I would like to have the security risk of having my passwords open without needing any kind of authentication. But that depends on whether I can bypass needing to enter a password on autologin in the first please, or if it's not possible.
On 18 December 2012 10:17, Mark David Dumlao <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Stephen Griffiths <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Is there some kind of rule where if you AutoLogin, you require some kind > of > > authentication when it comes to unlocking the keyring? > That's how the keyring works, in principle. The keyring is a > password-protected secret, and a typical desktop system would be setup > so that the login password you used was also used to unlock the > keyring. With autologin, no password is typed in, so gnome-keyring has > no way of being unlocked without asking you for a password. > > -- > This email is: [ ] actionable [x] fyi [ ] social > Response needed: [ ] yes [x] up to you [ ] no > Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate [ ] soon [x] none > > -- Kind Regards, Stephen Griffiths <http://www.stevegriff.com/>[image: Email [email protected]]<[email protected]>[image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/#!/stevegriffdtcom>[image: Facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/SteveGriffDotCom>[image: Google+] <https://plus.google.com/108932032303032698029/posts>[image: LinkedIn] <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/stevegriffdotcom>
