[GNC] Keeping two sets of books

[Colin Law]

I think Adrien is correct, mysql needs access to the keyring in order
to check user access permissions, though if you logon to the PC
manually, entering your password, then I would not have expected it to
have to ask again, and it certainly should not happen each time you
run gnucash.  I think it is most likely an issue with your system and
mysql though, not a GnuCash issue.

Colin

On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 23:08, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at mtneva.com> wrote:
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> It opens without the popup.  Which I suppose implies that the keyring checking is occurring in gnucash code conditionally for database access, or in whatever api gnucash uses for database access (libdbi?), or possibly in database-specific api libdbi uses (eg libpq(?) for Postgresql).  I don't think it's the latter since I've not noticed anything about it in the libpq docs but I could have easily missed something.
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> On 4/2/19 3:09 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> > If, as an experiment, you start a new accounts file and save it as
> > xml, then shutdown and restart gnucash, which should then open the xml
> > file, do you get the popup?
> >
> > Colin
> >
> > On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 18:21, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at mtneva.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> No auto-login here and I think the app that needs an option to ignore the keyring check entirely is Gnucash (not the database which isn't an app).  As for creating a different default keyring, I'll look into that sometime (so thanks for the direction to look!) but right now, clicking the Cancel button is the easiest way out.  As annoyances go it is nowhere near as bad as those caused by Gnome/GTK but that's a subject for a different list. :-)
> >>
> >>> There are multiple reasons for that pop-up and a solution for each. One involves disabling automatic login to the desktop. (if you use it) You can also create a different ‘default’ keyring and set it to non-protected. (so it is visible to anyone—not wise unless you store nothing in it.) Some apps also let you tell them to ignore the keyring check entirely. (Chrome is one such app, not sure about MySQL)
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Adrien
> >>>
> >>>> On Mar 31, 2019, at 8:23 PM, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at mtneva.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I do have a long persisting problem where I am asked every time for a password for my keyring (something I've never used, set up, or want) but since clicking "Cancel" results in gnucash opening fine I've never bothered to try to fix it.  (I'm running gnucash on Ubuntu linux.)
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