Keyring GRRRRRR

[ken_blackwell]

What the crap is this "keyring" that pops up when I try to open chrome....asking for a password. I have never and never will assign a password to this piece of junk.

How do I kill it? I went to the Software Manager, uninstalled Add-Apt-key, but couldn't uninstall the Mint or Ubuntu keyrings.

I will not have an additional password to open Chrome..!!!!!!!

Ken

[karlchen]

Hi, Ken.

Talking about crap:

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I [...] uninstalled Add-Apt-key

This idea was ... well, not the smartest idea, because add-apt-key is part of the software management system APT and not part of gnome-keyring at all.

About gnome-keyring and Chrome: this has been reported more than once and solved more than once. A little bit of Googling would yield better results than randomly uninstalling unrelated software packages.

Cf. e.g. here: Chrome asks for password to unlock keyring on startup. Search string "google chrome disable gnome keyring" took me less than 1 minute to get a match.

Best regards,
Karl

[RFlinux]

(LM Tessa 19.1)

I tried multiple ways to solve this annoying issue - this is the method that worked for me, finally disabling the prompt permanently:

Go to google-chrome-stable launcher in /usr/share/applications - open with sudo gedit / geany etc - scroll down to:
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U
and change that line to:
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --password-store=basic %U
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[Linux Mint Fan]

I found a simple way to solve this problem. I simply edited the command line in the Google Chrome launcher to read:

/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U --password-store=basic

I just had to add the last part ( --password-store=basic ) to the original command that was already there.

Hope this helps

Linux Mint Fan