Just to follow up on this. Seeing that I'm happy enough for my machine to autologin on bootup, I'm happy enough for the gnome-keyring to be automatically unlocked.
Is there a way of doing this? Regards, Steve On 18 December 2012 10:41, Stephen Griffiths <st...@stevegriff.com> wrote: > 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 <madum...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Stephen Griffiths <st...@stevegriff.com> >> 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 > st...@stevegriff.com]<st...@stevegriff.com> [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> > > -- Kind Regards, Stephen Griffiths <http://www.stevegriff.com/>[image: Email st...@stevegriff.com]<st...@stevegriff.com>[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>
