gnucash and gnome keyring

[John Ralls]

> On Mar 25, 2015, at 6:17 AM, Fabio Coatti <fabio.coatti at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In data lunedì 23 marzo 2015 09:47:35, nvsoar ha scritto:
>> 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
> 
> 
> I'm using gnucash with mysql backend and I'm facing a possibly related issue. My 
> environment is KDE, but with all gnome/gtk libs needed by gnucash. Every time I start 
> gnucash and access mysql backed data, gnucash asks for database user/password, then 
> for keyring password. I expected that next time gnucash will ask only for keyring 
> password, but instead it repeats the previous steps: mysql user/pass, then keyring. It 
> seems to me that gnucash tries to save user/password in keyring but at following access 
> it does not checks for keyring, or fails the check.
> It is not a showstopper, but it can be a bit confusing and time consuming for users: if the 
> keyring is not available (understandable, as I'm running on KDE), maybe gnucash should 
> avoid to try to save the pass in it (or use kwallet instead, that would be a big win :D )

GnuCash itself doesn't ask for the keyring password, of course, Gnome Keyring does. But AFAICT from the code GnuCash should be querying the keyring for the password first and only asking for the password if it doesn't find it, so keyring should be asking for its password before GnuCash asks for the database password. I won't be able to debug this until I get back, so unless Geert can, it won't make 2.6.6.

Please file a bug so that this doesn't disappear into the fog of the mailing list archives.

Regards,
John Ralls