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Erasing the Gnome Keyring....




I wrote this review of it:

Whiule my technical understanding of it may be a touch limited, it seems to me to be an automated password / access generator, for access to programs or the access of programs (and other things) to passwords and the operations they enable; through the use of a master password.
 
The trouble is that it opens up at random times, with NO information about what program wants to access the password, or worse WHO may be wanting to access the keyring; or why.
 
This is a totally unacceptable lack of user control. 
 
There is no control panel. No OFF switch. If you uninstall it  - via the control center, it removes python, the Software Centre etc.., etc., etc...
 
So you have to reinstall the Software Centre / python etc., etc., etc via Synaptic, and guess what - this program reinstalls it's self, along with ALL the other programs it removed in the uninstall.
 
I think it's like a cancer... you cut it out and it grows back.
 
What ever the "merrits" of the security level it enhances - the annoying out of the blue, requests it makes in random "not connected to any program" pop up messages, the lack of information as the basis of these requests and the very real and damaging uninstalls, that it does to your system, make this a BAD program.
 
There are no settings, no control panel, no OFF switch, no CLEAN uninstal, no information on what or who or why it's suddenly decided to demand that you enter the password, because some "program" is requesting it......
 
Bad, Bad, Bad........
 
There are a few hundred thousand returns in Google for "Keyring + uninstall + Ubuntu".
 
 And there is NOTHING on the Gnome website about removing it...
 
live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring



End of review.




Without getting really fucking nasty - take this as a hint....

I certainly regret installing it.

LOTS of other people do as well.




Google:


ubuntu turn keyring off


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You have top supply a total removal method for the Gnome Keyring...

This is one of the most anti-popular "features" I have ever come across - for every possible reason under the sun.

So can you fit in a user control panel, to switch it off, to remove it - without gutting your system etc.,

Regards

Shane


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