kdewallet password under Fedora-21/22

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 19:17 +0200, bitlord wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 18:55:24 +0200
> Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
> 
> > I notice that when I re-boot into Fedora-22
> > I am asked for my kdewallet password;
> > but when I boot into Fedora-21 I am not asked for this.
> > 
> > This isn't a serious inconvenience, as I don't re-boot often.
> > But I'd be interested to know the reason for it.
> > 
> > I seem to recall that this occurred in some older Fedora versions.
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure will this help, but 'sddm' (login/display manger) 
> supports
> unlocking kwallet password on login (I guess password for wallet need
> to be the same as for user login), so if you use 'sddm' this should
> work, and it most likely won't work on auto-login setups 
> (impossible?). 
> SDDM is default login/display manager on >=f21, before that it was 
> KDM. 
> All of this involves PAM as I understand it.
> I have this working on a few systems, but I also saw people reporting
> that if they have gnome-keyring and kwallet configured (I guess for
> PAM, login ... (not sure how this works)) that it breaks kwallet
> support or something like that, both cannot work properly at the same
> time, not sure why or if this was fixed because I never used both at
> the time.

The bug is that SDDM is not compatible with gnome-keyring. That's why I
use KDM, though apparently support for it will be dropped in F23. If
SDDM still doesn't support gnome-keyring by then, it will be time to
consider abandoning KDE.

poc