gnucash and gnome keyring

Stuart McGraw smcg4191 at frii.com
Tue Mar 24 01:22:51 EDT 2015


On 03/23/2015 11:54 AM, Alex Aycinena wrote:
>> From: Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com>
>> 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 am guessing that once it gets a password, it remembers
and doesn't ask again until some period of time has past.

>> 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.

At least that tells me it is possible to get to where
I want to go. :-)



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