Some notes on dealing with GNOME keyrings
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 Winter 2015

joostvb@incagijs:~/svn/its-unix/systems% svn update
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/joostvb/.cache/keyring-3Ai5JB/pkcs11: No such file or directory
Password for 'Default' GNOME keyring: 

% env | grep -i gnome
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/home/joostvb/.cache/keyring-3Ai5JB
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=3610

% ls -d ~/.cache/key*
/home/joostvb/.cache/keyring-2ncjUz/

no process with PID 3610 running

joostvb@incagijs:~/svn/its-unix/systems% unset GNOME_KEYRING_PID
% unset GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL

Subversion has defaults:

# password-stores = gnome-keyring,kwallet

in ~/.subversion/config

kill gnome-keyring-daemon process

% gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=pkcs11,secrets
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/home/joostvb/.cache/keyring-R7KsNR
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=5036

% export GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/home/joostvb/.cache/keyring-R7KsNR
% export GNOME_KEYRING_PID=5036

start seahorse, from the seahorse Debian source package

% seahorse

delete Default password keystore

File - New - Password Keyring

New Keyring Name - "Default"
Password - "53Kr3T"

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_Keyring

xinitrc method
Start the gnome-keyring-daemon from Xinit:
~/.xinitrc
eval $(/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=pkcs11,secrets,ssh)
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK

The skeleton .xinitrc will start a D-Bus session. See FS#13986 for more info.

Note: GNOME_KEYRING_PID has been removed, and GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL is not
written if XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set. See [1]

If you experience problems retrieving information from the keyring, make sure
that the variables DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is exported in the target
environment. (DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID is no longer exported)

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root@janacopoulos:~# apt-get -V install libsecret-tools
joostvb@janacopoulos:~% secret-tool store --label='test' testatt testval
Password: 
if no password entered in tty, falls back to gui password prompt from gnome keyring

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joostvb@incagijs:~/sv...unix/systems/cardano/doc% less ~/.subversion/config
###   gnome-keyring        (Unix-like systems)
###   kwallet              (Unix-like systems)
# password-stores = gnome-keyring,kwallet
dbus libsecret

root@janacopoulos:~# apt-get -V install libsecret-tools

 nm-ssh-service
https://github.com/danfruehauf/NetworkManager-ssh#running

"I've forked the work of NetworkManager-ssh from NetworkManager-openvpn."

https://github.com/danfruehauf/NetworkManager-ssh.git
janacopoulos:~/git/NetworkManager-ssh

Debian Bug - #725396
ITP: network-manager-ssh -- SSH VPN integration for NetworkManager