OK… I’m old school here. Cut my teeth on AT&T System 5 UNIX probably before most of you were born!
I don’t understand keyrings or why I want it or need it. Now I don’t need a dissertation on why I’m a fool or why it’s the only thing to do or I hate security. This is a personal laptop, only me as a user. Don’t use it for web browsing or games or email or anything like that. Can it just be turned off?
Even if I try to use it on AL 10, I keep getting prompted over and over and over again:
An application wants to create a new keyring called "Default keyring". Choose the password you want to use for it.
If I enter a password, I just get the same prompt again and again.
Any way to shut this annoying “feature” off? None of this ever happened on any AL 9 system.
Thanks.
Hi jmr,
I’m Akiyoshi kurita (redadmin). I saw your question about the keyring prompt on AL10, and I’d like to share a solution that works for many people.
■Solution : Set the Default Keyring password to blank
- When you’re prompted to create a password for the keyring, simply leave the password field empty and press Enter.
→ This will create an “empty password” keyring.
→ The prompt should no longer appear every time.
If you’ve already set a password for the keyring, you can reset it like this:
- Launch the app Passwords and Keys (sometimes called “seahorse”).
- On the left, right-click Login or Default keyring.
- Choose Change Password…
- Enter your current password, then leave the new password fields blank and click OK.
- Log out or reboot.
This usually prevents the annoying pop-ups from appearing repeatedly.
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Akiyoshi kurita (redadmin)
Many thanks for the reply, but I’ve already tried all that. This is a virgin fresh install of AL10. (And exact same behavior, as expected, on RHEL10).
Setting the password to blank does nothing. Prompts still come up even after warning, “your stored passwords will not be safely encrypted.”
Seahorse simply says, “This collection seems to be empty.”
And no files or directories in $HOME/.local/share as other “solutions” have suggested.
I even entered a password at the prompt thinking I might be able to delete it all later, but STILL get prompted. Log out, log in, reboot. Nothing changes and prompts still appear.
Bottom line is, I never want to store passwords. Ever. Why would anybody? Can’t figure out why AL10 seems to force me to do so.
I am sorry ,i cannot help you.
Akiyoshi kurita