gnucash and gnome keyring

[Stuart McGraw]

On 03/23/2015 10:47 AM, nvsoar wrote:
> 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/

Thanks.  Although several of them suggest installing seahorse
which I'll have to look into a little more.