Questions tagged [gnome-keyring]
GNOME Keyring is a daemon application that stores passwords, keys, certificates and makes them available to applications.
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How do you enable the secret-tool command (backed by gnome-keyring, libsecret and dbus) in a headless CentOS Docker container?
I'm trying to use the secret-tool command to store a secret securely in a running headless CentoS 7.5.1804 Docker container, but can't seem to find which packages and/or configuration is necessary to ...
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How to save an SSH key passphrase in gnome-keyring?
I want to save an SSH key passphrase in gnome-keyring and then use it automatically when I need it.
How to do this?
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Error "secret-tool: Cannot create an item in a locked collection"
I'm following the commands at, and created my own answer that only worked once:
How do you enable the secret-tool command (backed by gnome-keyring, libsecret and dbus) in a headless CentOS Docker ...
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How can I solve this ssh-agent problem?
I'm using Linux Mint, and have not been able to get gnome-keyring to unlock automatically at login, it seems.
A symptom of my problem is as follows:
$ ssh-add
Identity added: /home/me/.ssh/id_rsa (/...
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gnome-keyring usage without an x session
My use case is that I have a headless server that software development is performed on. I ussually enable X11 forwarding for the SSH connections to it, but I can't for distant locations with slow ...
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How do I fix "No such secret collection at path: /" for gnome-keyring and Arch Linux?
I'm running Arch Linux. When I try to save credentials using Vinagre (VNC client) it gives me an error:
Error saving credentials on a locked keyring
Cannot create item in a locked collection
I found ...
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Unlock Gnome Keyring Daemon from command line
I am trying to unlock the Gnome Keyring Daemon from the command line, by directly passing it a password. I tried a few variations of --daemonize, --login, --start, but I can't get it to work.
echo $...
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How to solve "The login keyring did not get unlocked when you logged into your computer" after changing password on Debian/KDE?
When trying to run a backup with Vorta on Debian 10/KDE I'm prompted to enter my password "Enter password to unlock your login keyring" but after entering my current password it displays:
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How to start the keyring daemon after a gnome-shell crash?
When gnome-shell crashes on Linux Mint 12 it usually comes up again within a couple seconds. When it doesn't, it seems that it takes the keyring daemon with it, because after restarting with
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Why is my "no password" setting on my login keyring frequently reset?
I use full disk encryption that takes a password on boot, and so I like to set Gnome Shell to log me in automatically and Seahorse to keep my login keyring unlocked*, so that I don't need to type my ...
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Check if Gnome keyring is unlocked?
I am searching for a method with which to determine whether a Gnome keyring is unlocked; primarily, the default one. I got very close using secret-tool, but if a keyring is locked, it still presents a ...
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How to modify a dbus service's "Exec" line without losing the changes in case of upgrade
I'm facing a ugly problem with my system. my login manager (LightDM) is starting gnome-keyring-daemon at login successfully and unlocking my keyring as it should (EDIT: Everything via PAM).
The thing ...
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The key(s) in the keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg are ignored as the file has an unsupported filetype
I am running Debian 10. I have been getting following error while updating repositories for long time:
$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease ...
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GNOME keyring daemon sometimes not asking for passphrase, need to provide it via command line
I use a CentOS 7.5 machine, set up with pubkey authentication to ssh to remote servers. Normally, as soon as I ssh to the first server, I get a GNOME graphical prompt asking to type my passphrase to ...
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Change the password for many accounts at once in Gnome Keyring
I use Gnome Keyring as the password storage backend for various applications. Many of the entries are for different ways to log into the same account, accessed through different means. I've changed my ...
