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.
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 18:55:24 +0200 Timothy Murphy gayleard@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.
On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 19:17 +0200, bitlord wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 18:55:24 +0200 Timothy Murphy gayleard@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
bitlord wrote:
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.
Both SDDM and KDM use PAM for this purpose. Both should work with pam_kwallet. BUT, we do not have pam_kwallet for KWallet 5 packaged yet. Upstream ported it only very recently. (It is reportedly in the kwalletmanager5 git repository.) So no matter what display manager you use, unlocking the new KWallet does not work yet.
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.
pam_gnome-keyring is a different issue. That one just does not work with SDDM for some reason (some conflict over signal handlers, as far as I know). That issue is still not fixed, and so pam_gnome-keyring is disabled in SDDM. (KDM is not affected by this one.)
Kevin Kofler
If your Fedora 22 installation has been upgraded from F21, you may want to give a look to bugreport "kwallet5 migration fails if kwallet4 is disabled" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228119
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