Re: [Evolution] evolutio forgets my passwords every start

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 00:46 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > I too have two keyrings - 'login' and 'default' - all my passwords are
> > in 'default' and I get asked for a password every time I start up Gnome
> > - so I thought I would do a bit of reading ...
> >
> > It appears that unfortunately the PAM Gnome-Keyring integration will
> > only unlock the 'login' keyring - what is supposed to happen is that
> > when any other keyring is unlocked there should be a tick box saying
> > "Automatically unlock this on login" and then the password to this
> > keyring is stored in the login keyring and automatically used when the
> > keyring is needed in future. Needless to say, this doesn't happen for
> > me.
> Just to follow up to myself. 
>
> I logged out of gnome and went to .gonme2/keyrings and renamed
> 'login.keyring' to something else, and then renamed 'default.keyring'
> 'login.keyring' and changed the contents of the file 'default' to read
> 'login'.  When I logged back in to gnome, it all worked properly - no
> multiple prompts.
>
> So the answer is to have the 'login' keyring as your default and have it
> contain all the keys you need.  Then, so long as PAM is setup properly
> you will be able to unlock the keyring at login and not enter any
> passwords multiple times.

Thanks Pete. This is what worked for me:

I have both login.keyring and default.keyring. The file 'default'
already pointed at login.keyring. I tried switching login.keyring with
default.keyring but that didn't work. I switched them back and removed
(i.e. moved aside) default.keyring. That worked.

IOW even though the default keyring was already set as login.keyring,
the fact that a default.keyring file also existed seems to have been
what made Evo not work. I'm not sure if this counts as a bug or a
feature, but it works now. And my brain hurts.

As my kids would say, woohoo!

poc