MX-18 RC1 Feedback

[Eadwine Rose]

I have never been asked for a master password or a keyring password for Chrome. Been using it for quite a long time now :)

[richb]

I have never been asked for a master password or a keyring password for Chrome. Been using it for quite a long time now :)

On first opening with Google Chrome, I am always asked for the keyring password.

[fehlix]

I'm getting this in Chrome "Enter password to unlock your login keyring", which would be fine except there was no initial prompt to set up a password.

When you log-in the first time with your normal username and password, during the log-in process a new login-keyring is (shall be) generated automatically by "libpam-gnomekeyring", if not already existing. As protecting password used for this keyring the user's password is used. After login this keyring is automatically unlocked. You can check this by doing the following:
- close all programs like Chrome etc
- clear/remove all existing keyrings

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rm ~/.local/share/keyrings/*

- logout and login
- dont' start Chrome
- open Password and Keys from the Menu
and you'll find a unlocked login-keyring as indicated by the unlocked symbol:

Password-and-keys-login-keyring.png

When you now open Chromium or any other app requiring access to use the keyring,
you will/shall not see any prompt.

If this showing of a password-prompt for unlocking thy keyring happens again, we might have a timing issues during the log-in process.
In that case please do this:
First clear again as described above the keyring.
Next do open Settings -> Application Autostart and click to enable on "Secret Storage Service "GNOME-keyring"
This might fix the timing related issue, if not please report back here.

[Eadwine Rose]

I have never been asked for a master password or a keyring password for Chrome. Been using it for quite a long time now :)

On first opening with Google Chrome, I am always asked for the keyring password.

Not here.. *shrug*

[richb]

I like the extra security.

[fehlix]

I have never been asked for a master password or a keyring password for Chrome. Been using it for quite a long time now :)

B/c you used an empty password for the keyring, I assume. (Which we shall not advocate to the user, but instead use (and fix if not working) a more secure solution)

[Eadwine Rose]

I cannot even remember EVER getting a keyring question for Chrome. I have gotten the question for skype IIRC, but Chrome? Never.

[j2mcgreg]

dolphin_oracle wrote:

it should be just your user password.

It wouldn't accept it. In any event, I reinstalled RC1 and chose Chromium instead of Chrome and declined Google's offer to sync all my devices. I want to see if the problem recurs.

Immediately after the reinstall, chromium worked fine with no appearance of the key ring prompt. However, it did reappear after these two packages:

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ecryptfs-utils (111-4), and, libecryptfs1 (111-4)

were installed after an update. So far, the prompt is accepting my normal password.

[fehlix]

dolphin_oracle wrote:

it should be just your user password.

It wouldn't accept it. In any event, I reinstalled RC1 and chose Chromium instead of Chrome and declined Google's offer to sync all my devices. I want to see if the problem recurs.

Immediately after the reinstall, chromium worked fine with no appearance of the key ring prompt. However, it did reappear after these two packages:

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ecryptfs-utils (111-4), and, libecryptfs1 (111-4)

were installed after an update. So far, the prompt is accepting my normal password.

Would enabling "Secret Storage Service GNOME-keyring" in autostart, as mentioned in the prvious post solve password prompt issue.

[richb]

Not sure what this means so do not blindly change. In Google Chrome, "chrome://flags/", invoked by typing in address bar, There is this entry:

Migrate passwords to "Login Data"
Performs a one-off irreversible migration of passwords from the gnome-keyring or kwallet into the profile directory. – Linux

The options are default, enable, disable with default as installed choice.