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Just to follow up on this. Seeing that I'm happy enough for my machine to |
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autologin on bootup, I'm happy enough for the gnome-keyring to be |
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automatically unlocked. |
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Is there a way of doing this? |
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Regards, Steve |
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On 18 December 2012 10:41, Stephen Griffiths <steve@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Thanks for you reply Mark. |
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> The way you put it makes sense. I guess the option is whether I would like |
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> to have the security risk of having my passwords open without needing any |
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> kind of authentication. But that depends on whether I can bypass needing to |
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> enter a password on autologin in the first please, or if it's not possible. |
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> On 18 December 2012 10:17, Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Stephen Griffiths <steve@××××××××××.com> |
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>> wrote: |
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>> > Is there some kind of rule where if you AutoLogin, you require some |
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>> kind of |
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>> > authentication when it comes to unlocking the keyring? |
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>> That's how the keyring works, in principle. The keyring is a |
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>> password-protected secret, and a typical desktop system would be setup |
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>> so that the login password you used was also used to unlock the |
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>> keyring. With autologin, no password is typed in, so gnome-keyring has |
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>> no way of being unlocked without asking you for a password. |
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> Kind Regards, |
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> Stephen Griffiths |
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