Bug 312531 - auto-unlock doesn't seem to work
Summary: auto-unlock doesn't seem to work
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-keyring
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F8Blocker 356931
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Reported: 2007-09-29 19:26 UTC by Thomas J. Baker
Modified: 2015-03-03 22:31 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 07:17:23 UTC
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Description Thomas J. Baker 2007-09-29 19:26:07 UTC
The auto unlocking gnome keyring stuff is not working well for me. I get
prompted every time I start evolution for the 'default' keyring password with
the option of automatically unlocking it at login, which I always check. Half of
my passwords are stored in the 'default' keyring and half are in the 'login'
keyring. Assuming that a bold name in gnome-keyring-manager denotes what it
thinks is the default keyring, then the login keyring is the default one. I get
prompted for the password to the 'default' keyring which then means the one
named default, and I also get prompted for the default keyring, which ends up
being the login one. The only difference in the prompting dialogs is the quoting.

The password to the login keyring is the same as my unix one. The password to my
default keyring is different. Do all three need to be the same to work? Also, is
this supposed to work for an NIS setup? My laptop is a local account but my work
one is NIS. The auto unlocking keyring stuff doesn't work anywhere.

I don't know if some of this is related to the fact that you still can't log out
correctly so things may not get saved.

This is on an up to date 9/29 rawhide system.

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2007-10-03 16:12:30 UTC
We have debugged the problem at length today, and found that there are 2 problems:

1) The pam configuration needs changes to enable gnome-keyring to do what it
needs to do. This requires authconfig changes that are outlinedin bug 250147

2) With the authconfig changes in place, it works selinux disabled. When selinux
is enabled, it prevents the pam module (running in gdm context) from talking to
the daemon (running in the session) via the socket. The proposed fix for this is
to start the daemon in a way that lets it unlock the keyring, ie pass the
username/password at start - probably not via cmdline though, since that would
make it show up in /proc for everyone to read)

Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2007-10-05 09:30:24 UTC
gnome-keyring-2.20-4.fc8 has a fix for the selinux problem.
Now we just need to fix authconfig.

Comment 3 Carl Becker 2007-10-14 18:01:53 UTC
I have the exact same problem with the network manager.
It always asks for the keyring unlock to get the wpa string with an option to do
this in the futur when I log in automaticaly. I always place the tick but it
never works.
This is still an issue with gnome-keyring-2.20-6.fc8 and authconfig-5.3.18-1.fc8.


Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2007-10-15 19:54:44 UTC
I have turned the auto-unlock checkboxes off now, until we have the necessary
pam setup changes.

Comment 5 Julian Sikorski 2007-10-15 20:14:38 UTC
I can't see the checkbox here at all... How to create the login keyring?

Comment 6 Jonathan Underwood 2007-12-03 00:20:59 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> I have turned the auto-unlock checkboxes off now, until we have the necessary
> pam setup changes.

Did this remain off when F-8 shipped? BZ #356931 seems to be manifesting this
problem. Is there any chance of pushing an update which unbreaks this situation?

Comment 7 Jonathan Underwood 2007-12-03 00:59:05 UTC
Re-opening this bug as the no-autounlock  patch is still in the SRPM, and
reassigning to F-8. Any chance of pushing an update with this fixed for F-8?

Comment 8 Jonathan Underwood 2008-01-20 23:50:30 UTC
Since there is a fix for the authconfig issue in BZ #250147 and the SElinux
issue is resolved, what is preventing pushing an updated package for F8 to give
functional gnome-pam-keyring?

Comment 9 James G. Brown III 2008-04-07 02:48:29 UTC
Any update on this? If there is anything I can do to help please advise. 

- James

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Comment 11 Tim Niemueller 2008-11-27 12:34:17 UTC
As far as I can see this is working now in F-10 and in F-9 for some time. So this bug can probably be closed now.

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