What would a patch look like? A --user that instead saves it to the user's
active secret service?

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On Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 9:44 AM Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net
wrote:

> On Mi, 14.11.18 11:38, Sietse van Zanen (sie...@wizdom.nu) wrote:
>
> > According to man:
> >
> >        --keyname=
> >            Configure a kernel keyring key name to use as cache for the
> password. If set, then the tool will try to push any collected passwords
> into the
> >            kernel keyring of the root user
> >
> >
> > Why only for user root and not the user running
> > systemd-ask-password?
>
> The whole "systemd-ask-password" concept was created with HDD
> passwords in mind, i.e. system stuff. We could of course extend the
> logic to also support unprivileged user stuff, and this has been
> requested before, but so far nobody sent a patch updating things for
> this purpose.
>
> Lennart
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