From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 5/17/2025 7:58 PM, Mike Easter wrote:   
   > vallor wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I don't have chromium, but I just did a "man google-chrome" and found:   
   >>   
   >>         --password-store=   
   >>                Set the password store to use.  The default   
   is to   
   >>                automatically  detect  based on the desktop   
   envi‐   
   >>                ronment.  basic selects the built in,   
   unencrypted   
   >>                password store.   gnome  selects  Gnome    
   keyring.   
   >>                kwallet  selects (KDE) KWallet.  (Note that   
   KWal‐   
   >>                let may not work reliably outside KDE.)   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> So maybe try "chromium --password-store=basic"?   
   >>   
   > I understand the programming assumptions, even 'tho' they are (slightly)   
   mistaken.  The assumption is that every linux user is going to have a   
   user/pass at login and 'therefore' there is a default keyring; and further,   
   even IF there isn't a default    
   keyring, there *SHOULD* be so as to enable chromium's user/pass functions (if   
   enabled).   
   >   
   > But the fact is that it IS possible to have a linux install which does NOT   
   require a user/pass at login; well, there is an 'arbitrary' user corresponding   
   to the name given at installation.   
   >   
   > And, it isn't even unusual that a user would decide to NOT have chromium   
    populate user/pass automatically.   
   >   
   > The chromium assumptions represent 'shortsightedness' on the part of the   
   chromium dev/s.  That is a bug, not a feature :-)   
   >   
      
   On Mint, it's available as a deb   
      
      sudo apt install chromium   
      
   bullwinkle@FRAZZLE:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release   
   DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint   
   DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.1   
   DISTRIB_CODENAME=xia   
   DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 22.1 Xia"   
   bullwinkle@FRAZZLE:~$ sudo apt install chromium   
      
   $ sudo synaptic   
   [sudo] password for bullwinkle:   
   bullwinkle@FRAZZLE:~$ which chromium   
   /usr/bin/chromium   
   bullwinkle@FRAZZLE:~$ /usr/bin/chromium   
   [2729:2729:0517/215307.618919:ERROR:chromium-136.0.7103.92/compo   
   ents/dbus/xdg/request.cc:169]   
    Request ended (non-user cancelled).   
      
   bullwinkle@FRAZZLE:~$ whoami   
   bullwinkle   
   bullwinkle@FRAZZLE:~$ /usr/bin/chromium  --password-store=basic   
   bullwinkle@FRAZZLE:~$   
      
   With the setting of "basic", it no longer attempts to open the keyring.   
   As far as I know, I think this means a password would be stored in   
   a plain text file somewhere.   
      
   It would be fun to test this with your own web server.   
      
      Paul   
      
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