- Package:
- libpam-gnome-keyring
- Source:
- libpam-gnome-keyring
- Description:
- PAM module to unlock the GNOME keyring upon login
- Submitter:
- doczipeter
- Date:
- 2026-07-06 17:45:01 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
* What led up to the situation? Installed package to enable automatic unlocking of gnome-keyring after gdm login. Also rebooted. * What was the outcome of this action? Gnome-keyring remains unlocked after gdm login and has to be unlocked with password via a dialog window when I launch an app that wants to access to it. * What outcome did you expect instead? Gnome-keyring is automatically unlocked after gdm login. Set bug severity to important as the package should enable exactly this.
journal shows following, possibly related warnings: jún 30 14:03:38 gdm-fingerprint][20024]: gkr-pam: no password is available for user jún 30 14:03:39 gdm-password][20011]: gkr-pam: no password is available for user however password for user is set, and is the same for gnome-keyring as login, also doublechecked with Seahorse if password can unlock keyring
(fingerprint and password) unlock the keyring the same way? or any other pam login method?
Please try to be precise in bug reports: if you say "remains unlocked"
when you meant "remains locked", that completely changes the meaning.
How could this work? The keyring is stored "encrypted at rest" with your
password as the decryption key (that's the point of gnome-keyring). If
you logged in without ever typing your password (for example using a
fingerprint), how would gnome-keyring be expected to obtain the password
and decrypt the keyring?
smcv
You're right, thanks for fixing the title! As a user my logic would go like this: Did I just logged in to my system by authenticating myself? Yes. So I'd expect gnome-keyring to be unlocked. As a user it does not matter to me what method I used to log in. Reframing the issue like this: Is there a way to make sure gnome-keyring unlocks whatever pam-supported authentication method I use? Be it fingerprint or anything else.