Not any help to solve the underlying problem, but a workaround: set an empty password for the gnome-keyring. This can be done using seahorse. I don’t remember exactly whether it worked without docking and without scaling. Might be that one has to enable scaling in phosh-mobile-settings or connect to an external monitor via a dock. I do remember that I used an external keyboard, because I had problems with squeekboard setting an empty password. Furthermore I had to type stuff in the field for the new password and delete it once to be able to confirm an empty password.
Now I’m not asked for the gnome-keyring password anymore.
This might be a security issue, because the stuff stored inside gnome-keyring isn’t encrypted anymore as I understood the situation.
I’d be happy to get some opinions about the possible security impact. My reasoning to do this has been:
- keyring is unencrypted available during runtime of the phone - no protection against an attacker having remote access when connected to a network
- all data of the phone is encrypted by full disk encryption when the phone is off
- my main password store is
pass- only a minimal collection of passwords end up inside gnome-keyring
I didn’t really see the security gain in having a password on gnome-keyring on my Librem5.