Gnome-keyring troubles

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-Keyring troubles

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-Keyring is used to saveGnome


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Password used in the environment. If you need to enter a password in a program and want to save the password, if the function of saving the password is provided by each program independently, security issues may occur or cannot be operated.
The problem is: if the program uses plaintext to save the password, it is easy to get a glimpse. If the program uses reversible encryption algorithms to encrypt the password, but most of the programs in Linux are open-source, the encryption algorithm is also known.
Xiao, then encryption is meaningless.
If the program uses a one-way encryption algorithm such as MD5 to encrypt and save the password, it will not be able to save the password (because the ciphertext is irreversible, the program cannot know the original password)

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-Keyring
It is generated to solve such conflicts. It uses a keyring to store all the passwords in the system, such as logon passwords and network connection passwords, in this key ring.
The key ring can be encrypted by a password or stored in plain text without encryption. This enables you to manage all the passwords stored in the key ring by entering only one password or without a password.

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The original design intention is good, but in the actual environment this thing has a lot of conflicts with our needs, if the key ring uses password encryption, if you need to enter the password, you do not need to enter the Saved Password.
But you still need to enter the password of the key ring, which also does not achieve the purpose of not entering the password; if the key ring does not use password encryption, then the password stored in the key ring is also stored in plaintext, and the program itself.
What is the difference between management ?? This is undoubtedly a paradox...

Just yesterday, when I set a VPN, I quickly set the password when prompted to set the key ring password. After that, I need to enter the key ring password to connect to the VPN, very worried. Then I deleted it ~ /.Gnome
2/keyrings

Directory to reset the key ring.

After the directory is deleted, reset the network connection and prompt to use a blank password when setting the key ring password. The problem was solved, but when the network was connected again, in the pop-up dialog box, enter the password for network connection, as if the key ring does not play any role. Save the key ring again and then connect to the network. Similarly, the key ring does not work.

View ~ /.Gnome
2/keyrings

The default key. keyring default key _ 1. keyring default key _ 2. keyring ...... It seems that every time I enter a password, a key ring is automatically created, and the key ring does not act as the default password ring. Therefore, the key ring is invalid when I enter the password again. This may be because I deleted the keyrings directly.

Directory, which may be caused by some other configuration files.

Seahorse was installed later

This graphic interface's key ring management software re-creates a key ring and sets it as the default. You can solve the problem.Gnome
2. In the keyrings directory, a file default is added, which records the name of the default key ring I set. It seems that this file was accidentally deleted .....

 

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