From: robin_listas@es.invalid
On 2024-06-26 22:30, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2024-06-26 14:45, Dan Purgert wrote:
>> On 2024-06-24, bad sector wrote:
>>>
>>> On launching GE-Pro desktop under Tumbleweed and Plasma6 I on a thinkpad
>>> T480 I get this:
>>>
>>> "Authentication required
>>> The login keyring did not get unlocked when
>>> you logged into your computer.
>>> Password:__________
>>> Cancel / Unlock"
>>
>> That looks like the message from gnome-keyring (seahorse?) that has
>> become sort of the central backend for saved passwords and such (e.g. in
>> chrome or tbird, etc.), rather than every program writing its own
>> account manager.
>>
>
> Yes.
>
> It doesn't matter that you have no stored passwords in it. Something
> thinks that you _may_ wish to enter a password , so it tries to ask the
> password keyring "do you have it"? This needs the ring to be opened with
> its password before it can answer the question.
>
> GE is just the trigger, it is asking the keyring, so the system
> activates the procedure to open the keyring, which is ask the user for
> the password to the keyring. NOT the password that GE might or not wish
> to ask for.
Firefox does the same with the master password.
Say I go to the page . Firefox sees
that there is a hidden login/password prompt, which it does not display,
at the top-right. Only when I click the proper icon it will display the
login/password prompt.
But Firefox sees that as soon as I open the page, and asks for the
master password so that it can check whether there is a login/pass pair
for this page, way before it is needed. I may in fact not login and
navigate anonymously, and say no to the master password (but FF will
keep insisting).
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Cheers, Carlos.
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