Gnome-keyring automatic opened when login with pam keyring

by Thomas Janssen — last modified Apr 07, 2008 02:40 PM

— filed under: Wireless, Post-Install Solutions

How to get the gnome-keyring automatic opened for, example Wlan, when you login into Gnome.

Applicable to Fedora Versions

Fedora 8

Requirements

None

Doing the Work

First you have to have the same gnome-keyring password as your login password. If it is not the same you have to delete your default keyring in ~/.gnome2/keyrings

Deleting the default keyring with the wrong password:

rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/default*

Install the pam_keyring package:

su -c "yum install pam_keyring"

Edit your /etc/pam.d/gdm:

su -c "nano /etc/pam.d/gdm"

Your gdm should look like the following. Copy/Paste it, And remember, the first line stays blank!

#%PAM-1.0
auth [success=done ignore=ignore default=bad] pam_selinux_permit.so
auth required pam_env.so
auth optional pam_keyring.so try_first_pass
auth include system-auth
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
account required pam_nologin.so
account include system-auth
password include system-auth
session required pam_selinux.so close
session include system-auth
session required pam_loginuid.so
session optional pam_console.so
session required pam_selinux.so open
session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke
session required pam_namespace.so
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
session optional pam_keyring.so

Troubleshooting

How to test

If you are useing NetworkManager (nm-applet) for your Wlan and you log in next time at Gnome, you will be asked for a new Password for gnome-keyring-manager. Give the same as your login password. From there your keyring will automatic opened for you when you login.

You can make the keyring by hand as well, press alt+f2 and type the following:

gnome-keyring-manager

More Information

Disclaimer

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net

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