Python library for accessing a system's native keyring service. It can be used for secure password storage.
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Missing dependencies causing Keyring error when opening Spyder3 on Ubuntu18?
I'm fairly new to programming and such. I'm trying to use Spyder3, and I keep getting this error (below). I am using Geforce 1080ti, Ubuntu 18.04.01, python3.3.6, python2 is not installed. I tried $ pip3 install keyring, which is now installed but…

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How is python-keyring implemented on Windows?
How does python-keyring provide security on Windows?
In GNOME/KDE on Linux, the user is prompted to enter his password to authorize access to the keyring on a per-application basis.
In Windows there is no such prompt when an application accesses the…

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Keyring Warning when running pip list -o
I've been trying to run pip list -o and pip list --outdated to see if any packages need to be updated but it enters a loop of printing: WARNING: Keyring is skipped due to an exception: Failed to create the collection: Prompt dismissed..
I've…

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On WSL2 `pip install virtualenv` comand hangs for too long
Under WSL2 running Ubuntu 20.04 I've tried to install virtualenv with pip running pip install virtualenv but the command just hangs printing nothing.
I terminated it and ran it again with python3 -v -m pip install virtualenv as advised here and it…

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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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Working Poetry project with private dependencies inside Docker
I have a Python library hosted in Google Cloud Platform Artifact Registry. Besides, I have a Python project, using Poetry, that depends on the library.
This is my project file pyproject.toml:
[tool.poetry]
name = "Test"
version = "0.0.1"
description…

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How do I retrieve a username with Python keyring?
I have a Mercurial keyring on my Windows 7 machine. I am using the Python keyring library to get user credentials from the Mercurial keyring.
I can retrieve the password for a given username with:
keyring.get_password('Mercurial', 'user@@etc')
Is…

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How do you Configure Python Keyring to pull credentials from Windows Credential Manager on Windows 7?
I've spent a lot of time researching the keyring package trying to get a simple example to work. I'm using python 2.7 on a windows 7-x64 machine. I've installed the package and confirmed that the files are within my Lib/site-packages folder.
In…

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keyring module is not included while packaging with py2exe
I am making an app using python 2.7 on windows and keyring-3.2.1 . In my python code on eclipse, I used
import keyring
keyring.set_password("service","jsonkey",json_res)
json_res= keyring.get_password("service","jsonkey")
is working fine as I am…

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Error while packing keyring module with PY2APP on MAC OSX
I am making an app in python which needs to store keys. I used keyring module to store keys.
I am using python-2.7 and osx 10.8.5 with keyring 3.2( easy_install keyring).
Code is running fine on eclipse, but when I converted code into app using…

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Is there a way to access the keyring in Windows without giving a master password?
I'm developing a script with a co-worker that involves connecting to a database. We want to keep the code independent of which one of us uses it, while keeping our passwords private and not having to authenticate over and over during the workday.…

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Error 1312 while using python keyring on Windows Server 2003
I am writing a Windows Service in python and I am using the keyring module to safely store credentials that I need to use regularly and persistently. This means that keyring stores the passwords using the local system user credentials.
All I do is…

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RuntimeError: No recommended backend was available. (Keyring w/ Python)
I have a program which uses Yagmail and the keyring package to safley store email credentials. When I run this script in atom.io and idle it works.
However, after I packaged it with pyinstaller it is giving me this message:
RuntimeError: No…

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How to disable command line password prompt for python's keyring - headless debian linux
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I would like to use python's keyring library in a headless Linux environment, specifically a Debian 9 GCP compute instance. I have a cron job that wakes up every so often to run a python script (... which utilizes keyring to retrieve…

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Avoid keyring messages when running command line tools
I am getting these two messages when running a command line utility (in the case pgcli) in an headless Linux running in Docker:
No handlers could be found for logger "keyring.backend"
Please enter password for encrypted keyring:
How can I configure…

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