I think Adrien is correct, mysql needs access to the keyring in order to check user access permissions, though if you logon to the PC manually, entering your password, then I would not have expected it to have to ask again, and it certainly should not happen each time you run gnucash. I think it is most likely an issue with your system and mysql though, not a GnuCash issue.
Colin On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 23:08, Stuart McGraw <[email protected]> wrote: > > It opens without the popup. Which I suppose implies that the keyring > checking is occurring in gnucash code conditionally for database access, or > in whatever api gnucash uses for database access (libdbi?), or possibly in > database-specific api libdbi uses (eg libpq(?) for Postgresql). I don't > think it's the latter since I've not noticed anything about it in the libpq > docs but I could have easily missed something. > > On 4/2/19 3:09 PM, Colin Law wrote: > > If, as an experiment, you start a new accounts file and save it as > > xml, then shutdown and restart gnucash, which should then open the xml > > file, do you get the popup? > > > > Colin > > > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 18:21, Stuart McGraw <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> No auto-login here and I think the app that needs an option to ignore the > >> keyring check entirely is Gnucash (not the database which isn't an app). > >> As for creating a different default keyring, I'll look into that sometime > >> (so thanks for the direction to look!) but right now, clicking the Cancel > >> button is the easiest way out. As annoyances go it is nowhere near as bad > >> as those caused by Gnome/GTK but that's a subject for a different list. :-) > >> > >>> There are multiple reasons for that pop-up and a solution for each. One > >>> involves disabling automatic login to the desktop. (if you use it) You > >>> can also create a different ‘default’ keyring and set it to > >>> non-protected. (so it is visible to anyone—not wise unless you store > >>> nothing in it.) Some apps also let you tell them to ignore the keyring > >>> check entirely. (Chrome is one such app, not sure about MySQL) > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Adrien > >>> > >>>> On Mar 31, 2019, at 8:23 PM, Stuart McGraw <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I do have a long persisting problem where I am asked every time for a > >>>> password for my keyring (something I've never used, set up, or want) but > >>>> since clicking "Cancel" results in gnucash opening fine I've never > >>>> bothered to try to fix it. (I'm running gnucash on Ubuntu linux.) > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
