Issues with gnome-keyring and libsecret

This was not a problem in my nix setup.

After I looked at the key setup on a Fedora and an Arch system I noticed that these did not have a Default_keyring, and all the passwords were in the Login keyring. The Login keyring only had a key to unlock the Default_keyring. I then:

  1. Deleted all the mailnag keys in the default keyring.
  2. Right clicked on the Login keyring and made it the default keyring
  3. Ran mailnag-config and reentered my passwords.

The new entries ended up in the Login keyring, and when I rebooted and logged in mailnag was
able to find them.

I’m not sure how the keyrings got set up the way they did, but I have been running Gnome from before the time that the pam setup had been worked out and I was regularly prompted by the gnome-keyring for my password every time I logged in.

Thanks for the help and sounding board to work out the issue. At least there is some documentation on the net about a solution. I know I looked a long time and found nothing.

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