gnucash and gnome keyring

[nvsoar]

On 3/22/2015 11:05 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> I recently installed a new Fedora-21 system with Gnucash
> installed from Fedora's yum repository.
>
> Frequently when I start Gnucash, I get prompted to enter
> a password for my keyring.  I would like to stop that.
> I don't use the keyring program at at all.  (And I'm not
> sure what the point of a password on the application is
> when the data is unencrypted and easily accessible but
> it seems someone thought it was a good idea...)
>
> Any idea how I turn the thing off?
>
> Besides the annoyance factor, I've been unable to get
> stock price updates via a cron job to work and wonder if
> the password business has something to do with it -- it
> was working fine on my old system.
>
> Apologies if this is wrong place to ask.  I tried the
> Fedora list and got no response then saw something in Google
> that suggested the code for doing this keyring business
> might be in Gnucash and not some kind of Fedora packaging
> enhancement.
See if these links assist in resolving the problem -
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=293104
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/38840/how-can-i-change-the-keyring-password/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/2rav8m/f21_unlock_keyring_for_user_with_no_password/
nvsoar