SDDM and gnome-keyring

[Luigi Toscano]

On Monday 12 of January 2015 12:53:26 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Those of us who use some Gnome applications such as Evolution are
> occasionally flummoxed by the never-ending story of Kwallet vs
> gnome-keyring. I suspect quite a few of us simply turn Kwallet off in
> order to simplify things. I did this a few releases back and everything
> worked, however with F21 I again have to input a password on every new
> session of Evolution, because gnome-keyring is not running as part of
> the login process.
> 
> Can anyone enlighten me as to how to modify /etc/pam.d/sddm to get this
> working? There are a few recommendations out there but some are for KDM
> and don't always agree even on that.
I can't help here, but...

> 
> Looking ahead, this and similar problems have been cropped up for many a
> long year now, and someone always mentions that efforts are under way to
> resolve them (1), but nothing seems to happen - that Web page seems to
> be moribund and the link to the proposed spec is dead. What are the
> prospects of this incompatibility being settled? Seriously, aside from
> the UI, is there any fundamental difference between the goals of Kwallet
> and Gnome-keyring? Why does a DE even have to deal with managing
> keyrings or wallets anyway? Shouldn't this be a lower-level service and
> the DE just provide a UI for it?

https://marc.info/?t=140824261800003&r=1&w=2
https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/utils/ksecrets
Try to ping the maintainer for news about this...

Ciao
-- 
Luigi