Bug 416942

Summary: autologin session, unlock the default keyring prompt appears
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: Evgeny Bobkin <stwooe>
Component: GNOMEAssignee: E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: milouxiv, vuntz, werner
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 11.0   
Whiteboard: gnome-usability,gnomeup-gnome-keyring
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Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Attachments: keyring prompt

Description Evgeny Bobkin 2008-08-13 10:44:12 UTC 
hello, i am using auto login session, but i still get the prompt on startup from my wireless network connection and have to enter password to unlock the default keyring, the user password and the wlan password are the same, see screenshot

> cat /etc/pam.d/gdm

#%PAM-1.0
auth     include        common-auth
account  include        common-account
password include        common-password
session  required       pam_loginuid.so
session  include        common-session
session  required       pam_resmgr.so
auth     optional       pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
session  optional       pam_gnome_keyring.so


> grep -rq pam_gnome_keyring.so /etc/pam.* && echo "Have PAM Support"

Have PAM Support


> test -f ~/.gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring && echo "Have 'login' keyring"

Have 'login' keyring


what do i expect?

i expect that autologin session unlocks the default keyring at startup, so the wlan connection can be established without asking me for password

thank you
Comment 1 Evgeny Bobkin 2008-08-13 10:46:19 UTC 
Created attachment 233196 [details]
keyring prompt
Comment 2 Dr. Werner Fink 2008-08-13 11:41:22 UTC 
IMHO this is not related to bug #383353
Comment 3 Evgeny Bobkin 2008-08-13 11:51:02 UTC 
to #2: ok that was my bad then...
Comment 4 Andrew Jorgensen 2008-08-13 15:15:36 UTC 
I agree that this is a bug but unfortunately it's probably impossible to solve at present.

You need a password to unlock the keyring.  Autologin doesn't use a password so there's no password for pam to give to the keyring daemon.

The workaround is to not use autologin.
Comment 5 Evgeny Bobkin 2008-08-14 11:04:33 UTC 
to #4: Andrew, is it at least fixed in Opensuse 11.1?
Comment 6 JP Rosevear 2008-10-07 19:13:03 UTC 
Not fixed for 11.1, nor can it be to keep your password secure unfortunately, otherwise you'd give access to all your passwords trivially.
Comment 7 Donald Swam 2008-11-17 15:36:28 UTC 
This works under 11.0 and fails under beta-5. It may not be correct but I copied the two keyring files from my home directory on 11.0 to 11.1 and it works.
Comment 8 Vincent Untz 2009-04-28 22:20:14 UTC 
It's definitely not something that is fixable, unless the user decides to use an empty password for the keyring.

But if you use autologin and you have a password on your keyring, there's no way the keyring can be unlocked without asking for the password (where could it find the password?)

So it's really not a bug.