gnucash and gnome keyring

[Alex Aycinena]

Stuart,

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Cc:
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:05:45 -0600
> Subject: gnucash and gnome keyring
> 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.
>

You say frequently as opposed to always. If that is correct, it implies it
is not a gnucash issue.


> 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?
>

I'm not sure what may cause this and can't really help (sorry) other than
to point out that I too have gnucash on F21 and have never experienced this.


>
> 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.
>
>
Regards,

Alex