Bug 1388825

Can you verify using kwalletmanager4 (for your kde4 wallet) and kwalletmanager (for your kf5 wallet) that wallets are open or not?

Otherwise, can you elaborate how you determine that your wallet is not yet open?


Once verified, I encourage you to consider reporting this upstream to bugs.kde.org

Please close this bug. This behaviour might entirely be my own fault.

I can't remember setting it, but SDDM was set to auto-login. On disabling auto-login, I no longer needed to fill in the kwallet password.

(It would be nice to have kwallet unlock too on auto-login, but that's another issue.)

Thanks, triaging to sddm

AFAIK that's a general issue with auto-login because the login manager (here sddm) does not hand the password to pam, so kwallet can not unlock.
Is it reproducible with lightdm?

Any news here? Should we open a RFE for upstream?

Yeah, I guess you should open an enhancement request against the upstream project. This is not really a bug on itself, considering how the PAM module works.

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This cannot possibly work. To unlock a password-protected wallet, you have to enter the password somewhere. With autologin, the password is never entered. (Autologin does not save the user password, it skips asking for it.)

If you want a wallet that always auto-unlocks without you having to enter the password anywhere, set the wallet password to an empty string. (But then, file permissions will be the only thing protecting it from unauthorized access, so if somebody can access your files, e.g., by physically stealing the HDD/SSD or the entire machine, or by becoming root, they will have access to the wallet too.)