Questions tagged [gnome-keyring-daemon]
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Error when using Git credential helper with gnome-keyring as Sudo
I was looking for a way to store credentials securely while connecting to our Git server which uses SSL. I came across this suggestion by @james-ward (only edit I made was I updated our "system" config instead of our "global" config for Git…

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How to unlock Gnome Keyring from Python running on a Cron Job?
I'm hooking a Python script up to run with cron (on Ubuntu 12.04), but authentication is not working.
The cron script accesses a couple services, and has to provide credentials. Storing those credentials with keyring is easy as can be, except that…

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gnome_keyring_unlock_sync equivalent in libsecret, to unlock a gnome keyring?
I was using gnome_keyring_unlock_sync to unlock a keyring. However, libgnome-keyring-dev is going outdated, and I would like to move to libsecret.
GnomeKeyringResult gnome_keyring_unlock_sync (const char *keyring, const char *password);
However, I…

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Secure Password Storage for R on (non-GUI) Linux Server
I'm working on a small team trying to put an R script onto an AWS EC2 instance that has RHEL7 installed. The problem is the library "keyring" which we use on our laptops doesn't work without a compatible keyring daemon, which I have been unable to…

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How to setenv based on sed results (for gnome-keyring-daemon)
My Problem
My core issue is I need to start the gnome-keyring-daemon from c shell. In bash, it's quite easy:
> export `gnome-keyring-daemon`
which is the equivalent of:
> export GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/0123.1.sds/keyring-abcdef/socket…

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How to unlock Gnome Keyring on Debian headless (WSL 2) and make it work in Python?
I have read the guindance that the keyring package has in its project for headless linux systems.
So the main recommendation is to install the gnome-keyring package in order to work with the Secret Service Backend.
sudo apt install…

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Android - How do I attach the private key used by ant release for signing to GNOME Keyring?
Apparently, Java uses a different format for signing than gnome-keyring/GPG. Gnome Keyring uses PKCS #11, while Java uses PKCS #12. I don't like the idea of having .keystore files floating around, so I would like to use Gnome Keyring / Seahorse for…

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gnome-keyring interfering with gcloud ssh & copy-files
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https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-cloud-sdk/voxZDVSD6Bg
Greetings
When I attempt to use "gcloud compute ssh" or "gcloud compute copy-files", a dialogue box pops-up and…

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Gnome Keyring: how to securely generate/store keyring password?
I'm making a vala application that stores user access credentials in a Gnome Keyring. If no keyring exists for the application, I'd like to create one; however, I would like to create a new keyring. Unfortunately, I don't know how to securely…

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How to Store OAuth Credentials With Gnome Keyring
I'm trying to build a simple Vala/Gtk Twitter app, and I've managed to send tweets; however, the user has to authenticate every time, which entails going to a URL, clicking to give my App permission to post, copying the PIN, and pasting said PIN…

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How to git pull multiple repositories in parallel without getting multiple gnome-keyring unlock prompts?
I use the following alias in .zshrc on Arch Linux to git pull all repositories in a directory in parallel:
alias multipull="find . -maxdepth 5 -name .git -type d | rev | cut -c 6- | rev | parallel -j64 'echo -n {}... && git -C {} pull'"
This works…

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Securely storing refresh tokens, credentials in Linux
I am building a native app for linux and all the back-end code is based on C++, i am able to connect to the server and obtain tokens from electron and currently storing it in a txt file.
What i need to achieve is to store refresh tokens along with…

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Ubuntu 18.04 Git starts its own ssh-agent instead of using the existing agent
I'm having an issue I don't fully understand with my new machine where the first time I run a git command after a restart, it starts its own ssh-agent instead of using the existing one that already has my key added. Symptoms are as follows:
When I…

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SVN Gnome Keyring - RHEL 6 - Keyring takes any password
After following a various assortment of steps from different guides that I found - I think I have Subversion with Gnome Keyring set up.
Part of the setup process was making a keyring for SVN, and then setting it as default. I created it and made a…

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Unable to create a GArray in Gjs
I try to create a GArray but I have always the same error :
const GLib = imports.gi.GLib;
var garray = new GLib.Array(true, true, 1); // Unable to construct
boxed type Array since it has no zero-args , can only
wrap an existing one
var garray =…

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