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 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 wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Stephen Griffiths
>> 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.
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