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   Carlos E.R. to Dan Purgert   
   Re: googleearth login alert   
   26 Jun 24 22:30:13   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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