Liberty Phone Crimson: Now that Suspend is on I get this after every wake up from suspend: “The login keyring did not get unlocked when you logged into your computer”: thus I have to log in the user account twice after waking from suspend mode. Given the complexity of the password required for users, I’d love to only log in once. Sardonic grin.
What are you actually using the login keyring for, if anything?
However I believe you are correct that the login keyring is never unlocked and that this has been the case for quite some time. Not unlocked at initial boot up, never mind about after suspend.
I have no idea what I’m using the login keyring for, if anything. How do I find out?
Have a look what’s in it? (using seahorse)
The reason that I ask is that Geary (mail client) uses a keyring but it doesn’t use the login keyring - and I am using Geary. So if you are using the login keyring then you must be using some other application the does use that keyring.
It should be possible to copy a keyring file to another computer (with significant care!!!) if you need to do that in order to examine the contents with seahorse. It is a pity that seahorse doesn’t make this easier.
Another approach is: OK, so what goes wrong if you decline to open the login keyring?
Thank you, @irvinewade . It began after I set up Geary and Delta Touch (Chat). I will look into seahorse.
I would guess that this application is using the login keyring.
This is an unfortunate aspect of how keyrings work in practice. Applications often don’t give the user the choice about which keyring will store the key.
I use multiple keyrings in order to spread the risk and also in order to segregate by importance e.g. less important passwords can go in a keyring with a less strong unlock passphrase.
Anything that uses the login keyring is automatically compromised if your account is compromised - although as it happens that is not currently true on the Librem 5 because on the Librem 5 the login keyring does not work the way it does on a bigger computer. (Obviously we all hope that our accounts are never compromised but …)