Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome-Keyring not unlocking with Slim Autologin
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
[gentoo-user] Gnome-Keyring not unlocking with Slim Autologin
Hi all, I'm having an issue with the Slim Login Manager and it's AutoLogin feature. With the AutoLogin flag set to no, when I login, gnome-keyring unlocks itself fine, with Evolution being able to utilise it. However, when the AutoLogin flag is set to yes, Evolution invokes gnome-keyring to ask for the Password. Is there some kind of rule where if you AutoLogin, you require some kind of authentication when it comes to unlocking the keyring? -- Kind Regards, Stephen Griffiths
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome-Keyring not unlocking with Slim Autologin
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
