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Old 12-11-2015, 11:24 AM   #16
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A few days ago after an automatic update of chromium-browser I start having the same problem. And when I went facebook told me about a new feature to show me notifications on the desktop. I clicked no, but still the message appear and facebook told me I can activate that feature any time later. I don't have (and don't want have) facebook app or plugin or anything like (hangouts or slack) that. The only plugin I have is downloadhelper. So what I suppose to do to detect, and stop that keyring login password petition?.
Should I simple stop using chromium and uninstall it?.
 
Old 12-11-2015, 09:13 PM   #17
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A few days ago after an automatic update of chromium-browser I start having the same problem. And when I went facebook told me about a new feature to show me notifications on the desktop. I clicked no, but still the message appear and facebook told me I can activate that feature any time later. I don't have (and don't want have) facebook app or plugin or anything like (hangouts or slack) that. The only plugin I have is downloadhelper. So what I suppose to do to detect, and stop that keyring login password petition?.
Should I simple stop using chromium and uninstall it?.
If the methods outlined in previous posts didn't work for you, you could always just uninstall gnome-keyring altogether.

I just hit 'cancel' when it asks me to unlock the keyring when Chromium starts up, myself.
 
Old 06-25-2016, 08:22 AM   #18
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If the methods outlined in previous posts didn't work for you, you could always just uninstall gnome-keyring altogether.

I just hit 'cancel' when it asks me to unlock the keyring when Chromium starts up, myself.

I've recently installed Linux Mint on a new 64 bit machine and suddenly I am confronted with the keyring login issue when starting Opera Browser, which is really a chromium browser in disguise. On my old 32 bit machine I was using the old Presto version of Opera, which evidently saved web login passwords in a dedicates application folder, since it never bugged my with a keyring login. I prefer to autologin to my linux user account, since I am at home and the only user. Chromium didn't work very well on the old machine, so I never used it to access the internet. I therefore never dealt with keyring issues, but now I do.

In the Opera browser I have the option to sync various browser data across platforms running Opera with my opera user logged in. Setting up and using this feature in Opera is very useful when Opera is run on different devices. I have my sync setting set to include passwords. On the Linux system these passwords are saved in a gnome keyring. Without the keyring the synced passwords aren't saved locally. This will include any other newly created password that is entered on a web page where a password is required and hasn't been saved before, as in the case of a new sign-up. When logging in to your newly signed-up service the browser will offer to save the password in a dialogue under the search bar. When clicking the save button a pop-up will appear to create a keyring password if a keyring hasn't been created before. When cancel is clicked, no password is saved, and subsequently no keyring is created.

To bypass the issue of having to log in to your keyring when the browser is started, rather delete the passwords key in the gnome keyring application (this will permanently delete all your saved passwords) than to remove the keyring application altogether. If no passwords have been saved in the browser before, then the passwords key probably doesn't exist, and the keyring prompt probably doesn't come up in the first place. As in samandiriel's reply above, simply hitting cancel when the browser is started implies that samandiriel isn't generally interested in saving any web login passwords locally, but has done so previously, maybe once, therefore needs to login the keyring when the browser starts (also, samandiriel obviously uses auto-login to his linux user at startup).

Uninstalling the keyring application sounds like a very bad idea to me and I wouldn't recommend it. Removing a security feature from your system is stupid, really. You will only have something else to complain about later, trust me. You just might need a keyring one day! Saving web logins locally is always a security risk when you are working in a multi-user environment. When the keyring has a blank password it can be opened and raided by anyone who has access to that machine (and who is fiendish enough to look for it!). If you are working on a private computer with no prevailing risk of theft by robbers interested in your data, I would say you fall in a very low risk category when storing your passwords in an unencrypted keyring .
 
Old 09-01-2016, 04:18 PM   #19
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I created an account just so I could vote CVAlkan's burn as helpful. The pretentiousness of some Linux folks out there makes my blood boil.
I, too, voted it up. I've been using Linux for 20 years and my teeth go back to the IBM 1620 CADET.

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My solution was to delete the personal keychain.
That is vaguely what I remember having to do the last time this bit me. But I don't remember how to do that. I'll have to start another Google chain to find that answer...In the future, if you have a solution, please include some informative instructions so the next ones along can find out more than that you were successful. Thanks.

<<time passes>>
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rm -rf ~/.local/share/keyrings
I guess the keyring folks don't know about XDG_CONFIG_HOME

<<more time passes>>Welp, the keyrings are gone, but Chrome is still really, really, really insistent upon managing my passwords for me and getting a master password from me to do it. No matter what. Even though I won't let Chrome manage my passwords. It is going to help me whether I want it to or not. Back to Google. BTW: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-pw-mgr is what I use.

Last edited by bkorb; 09-01-2016 at 04:28 PM.
 
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Old 10-31-2016, 03:01 PM   #20
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I think this'll work:

- Launch gnome-keyring
- Go to Passwords | Right-click Login | Change Password (Login is just one... maybe other applications are also prompting you, so you can do this for them as well)
- Enter your old password
- Enter a blank password as the new one
Hi Sam.

That's safe yes?
 
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Old 10-19-2018, 12:40 PM   #21
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Thank YOU CVAlkan

How lovely to hear what you had to say. I had to look up non sequitor, but that's what I love about the internet.
I didn't even get started with computers until age 50, 11 years ago. I've been learning linux and I love it, I love the learning process. You really gave me a big smile. Kudos to you sir.
Also to you liassic.
You made my day
 
Old 02-22-2019, 06:23 PM   #22
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Worked for me!

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I think this'll work:

- Launch gnome-keyring
- Go to Passwords | Right-click Login | Change Password (Login is just one... maybe other applications are also prompting you, so you can do this for them as well)
- Enter your old password
- Enter a blank password as the new one
Thanks @SilentSam. This has been bugging me for months - but not enough to make me actually sort it out 'till I had some spare time today.
 
Old 06-03-2019, 12:23 AM   #23
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[QUOTE=CVAlkan;5180384]Hi Widget:

Well, thanks much for the Lecture, Mom, etc. . . .

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I created an account just so I could vote CVAlkan's burn as helpful. The pretentiousness of some Linux folks out there makes my blood boil.

But I also wanted to chime in and say I believe the referenced issue lies with the personal keychain's Chrome passwords. My solution was to delete the personal keychain. When I was prompted to create a new one, I simply didn't provide a password. I was warned about file security, blah, blah, but I've got other security measures in place (much like OP), so I went forward with no password in the personal keychain. No issues since then.

Happy Linuxing!
I was also motivated to create an account because of CVAlkan's response, but because of my own experience with another distro and the same issue: I don't know what autologin is, because I have seen both saving username only and also bypassing the login altogether. I have never bypassed login, but I was assigned a login that supplies a username at login, and did not feel threatened because I was password protected. On other forums I was met with presumption without solution. So many people presumed that it was some newby errror I had made, that I must not have much background, that I must have selected some options to which I would not admit, but the truth of the matter was that I had used the system the day before and the next day I accepted a harmless-looking update (none of it to do with the keyring or the login) and I was only able to log in to the console, where I tried first to determine at what point the login was failing. I was disturbed because the graphical login was failing at the last possible point: So I tried other display managers and they seemed to work, except they required a password once logged in.

I like xfce, so the display manager that I landed on was xdm, but I'd rather go back to gdm because it has a setup that I like. I also put Google Chrome in the user protocol prologue (autostart); if you like Firefox better, mind that I go back and forth because of the changes each keep making to their product. I seem to have outgrown Mosaic.

I probably do what I usually do now, solving this on my own now that I found that the login problem is logging in through gdm with a broken keyring. But if anybody could suggest to me what might make the keyring as happy as it was last night (without typing a password again) I'd be willing to listen (read read).
 
Old 03-21-2022, 06:54 PM   #24
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Thumbs up Keyring not Unlocking - a fabulous reply

CVAlkan's reply is one of the best 'replys' that I think I have ever seen! It should be immortalized somewhere!!! Somewhere besides this thread!

But alas, it doesn't resolve my issue with my 'keyring not unlocking', some years later, on my password-protected Linux machine.

Thank you CVAlkan!!!!!
 
Old 03-22-2022, 05:23 AM   #25
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Well, thank you for your kind words. It's hard to believe eight years have gone by since my original question.

Having spent more than seven years living in various southeast Asia locations, I find the "missing Hanoi!" on your signature intriguing; any story you'd care to share? Any influences on your computer use (e.g. do you use an IME such as iBus or fcitx and, if so, which do you prefer, etc.?)

Have a great day.
 
Old 04-03-2022, 09:16 AM   #26
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Greetings,

My wife and I have been living in various locations over the years. We were in Hanoi for four too short years, ending in 2008. I loved being there and it is still one of my favorite places (we go back to visit friends from time to time). While there I participated in the Hanoi LUG.

I started trying to use linux back in the 1990s - trying being the operative word. I could never get Red Hat to install (operator error no doubt). I think it was Mandrake that got me started, still in the 90s. I am not a 'techie', though my computer addiction goes back to learning to use my new Kaypro CP/M machine in a mountain village in central Burundi in the 1980s, and did Win95/98 & hardware support in the 1990s for a MS contractor. I dual-boot all of my machines and prefer using Linux, but sometimes the windows versions of software work just a tad better.

Were you in SE Asia for IT-related reasons? Our careers have been mainly in international development cooperation (technical advisors in forestry, natural resources, ag, and other things (training and institution building, not resource extraction). Trained as a forester, I had no interest in growing toilet paper and 2x4s and Peace Corps got me back overseas. The USMC introduced me to VN in 1968, and I always wanted to go back to 'help the country', and that was what I eventually got to do, for a while. Thus the VN love affaire, with VN, not a Vietnamese ;^)

There ya go! More than you ever wanted to know.

I think I would prefer many places in SE Asia to Chicago. Not trying to disparage Chicago. Having grown up in MN, I prefer milder more tropical climates.

LeRoy
 
Old 04-03-2022, 02:26 PM   #27
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Hi ...

"IT-related reasons" is sufficiently vague enough that I can confidently answer "yes." As it happens, I left the Oakland processing center in 1967 on the Army's dime, but ended up being assigned to a multi-branch unit (including AF and USN folks, though no Marines for some reason); that assignment resulted in travel to most places over there we were involved in (whether publicly or not) at one time or another. I remained in SEA with that same unit until late 1974, returning back to the "real" army at Ft. Huachuca, AZ until my ETS. As for geographic preferences, I can only say that they dragged me back stateside kicking and screaming. So I certainly get your point.

In the 60s the only commercial computers we used (at least in my tiny corner of the DoD) were Univacs and IBMs, though in civilian life afterwards I dealt with lots of other things: "real" (AT&T) Unixs (Unices?) as well as the "fake" (though oddly similar) Microsoft Xenix. First exposure to Linux was - like yours - also in the 90s, but courtesy of a 2 CD set of Ubuntu I picked up at some trade show or another. For years now I've used Linux of some flavor or another on most machines, with Windows as a secondary boot only on a seldom-used laptop.

Likewise not trying to disparage Seattle - but I had to return briefly to the U.S. on emergency leave in late December 1969, so I hitched a flight to Tan San Nhut airbase, where I was issued a set of tropical weight Class-As and put on a flight to SeaTac. Since the plane was a C-141 or something of that ilk, I'm not sure who we were supposed to be impressing by having to get gussied up, but I'm guessing you won't be too surprised. We landed in the very early morning in pitch dark; the steps were rolled up, and we were pointed to a building about thirty miles across the tarmac and instructed to walk over there for processing, new winter uniforms and to arrange flights elsewhere. Saigon was hot and humid. December weather in Washington is not, and I suspect that only someone who lives in the Seattle area can comprehend the physical trauma involved in getting across the endless tarmac in short sleeves without freezing in mid run. As an aside, I have to say that I was mightily impressed with how quickly we were all measured and fitted with full winter clothing; while they were working on the sewing machines, we had a nice breakfast and by the time we had dressed in our new duds, our tickets and transportation were all ready. I can only assume that all of the folks there were civilians.

So there - more than you ever wanted to know as well ...

Stay safe,

Frank
 
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