gnucash and gnome keyring

Stuart McGraw smcg4191 at frii.com
Tue Mar 24 01:23:12 EDT 2015


On 03/23/2015 03:22 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 23 March 2015 at 06:05, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com> 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...)
>
> Are you using mysql database format?

Postgresql.  But when I start Gnucash, I start it with a
desktop shortcut that contains the database uri including
the password, eg:
   gnucash postgres://myusername:mypw@localhost/gnucash

I also have setup password-less access using Postgresql's
native authentication scheme, a ~/.pgpass file, but
somehow that doesn't seem to work with gnucash -- I
get prompted for a password anyway if it is not supplied
in the uri.

Looking in the keyring manager app, it shows the password
it saved for gnucash is the pg password.  It occurs to me
now that perhaps I entered that before I set up the other
password avoidance paths.  I deleted the entire gnucash
entry -- it doesn't immediately ask for a password on
starting gnucash, will have to see what happens after
a day or two,...






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