Hello , all , I just transitioned from Thunderbird to Evolution + GNOME online accounts and found out there's one big drawback (at least for me it's very annoying) - autologin doesn't unlock the keyring . I think I understand more or less why that's happening , but autologin is useless if you're going to enter your password after 5 seconds anyway , which makes this feature incompatible with "Online accounts" . Now that's what I consider a serious problem , because most users will prefer to auto-login and when they encounter the issue - what will they do ? Search in Google of course ! And the only solution to be found is turning off encryption (setting a blank password) for the keyring . (not mentioning the other solution is to continue being frustrated by the password prompt as long as possible)
Now my first question is - how does GDM store the password to autologin a specific user , when AFAIK the kernel handles user login services and the passwords there are probably stored in hashes , so GDM needs to give the kernel the actual password to authenticate the user (other option is that the kernel has an outologin option , but that doesn't seem like something Linus would approve) . So if this is the case why can't GDM unlock the keyring in the same manner it unlocks the user session ? (sorry for making so much assumptions , hopefully I've stayed in the lines of what's logical) Petko _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
