jrpstonecarver
August 29th, 2018, 09:23 PM
Hi All,
I'm using an older machine running 18.04.1 as upgraded from 16.04. It seems to be fine, but there is an annoying issue.
I have a set of custom scripts that use gpg to encrypt and decrypt a local file for a couple of uses. Back in 16.04 I found a way to completely disable the keyring so that it would not pop up and ask me for the password every time I ran these scripts. Instead I'd just enter the password right into the terminal window/shell. I need to figure that out for 18.04 now, and I am having no luck. All of the posts I have found on this are old, and most are specific to getting Chrome to stop prompting for the keyring.
That's not enough. I want to go one step farther: I want the keyring to stop entirely. Forever. For all applications. I'll type the passwords when I need them, thank you, and I don't want that software getting in my way. There are some very specific cases where they keyring causes me to have to retype passwords multiple times, and that is pointless. That will go away if I can turn off the keyring, or it used to in 16.04. Assuming that behaviour is unchanged, getting rid of this thing will get me back to where I need to be.
The best advice I've found so far was to remove execute permission from /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-3 and gnome-keyring-daemon, which I tried, but it did nothing. No luck. The silly thing keeps working, though I honestly don't know how the daemon restarts after I've turned off write permission to it. That makes no sense at all. I haven't rebooted yet, but maybe I need to do that.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thank you. This software is very intrusive and really needs a simple way to be removed or disabled.
I'm using an older machine running 18.04.1 as upgraded from 16.04. It seems to be fine, but there is an annoying issue.
I have a set of custom scripts that use gpg to encrypt and decrypt a local file for a couple of uses. Back in 16.04 I found a way to completely disable the keyring so that it would not pop up and ask me for the password every time I ran these scripts. Instead I'd just enter the password right into the terminal window/shell. I need to figure that out for 18.04 now, and I am having no luck. All of the posts I have found on this are old, and most are specific to getting Chrome to stop prompting for the keyring.
That's not enough. I want to go one step farther: I want the keyring to stop entirely. Forever. For all applications. I'll type the passwords when I need them, thank you, and I don't want that software getting in my way. There are some very specific cases where they keyring causes me to have to retype passwords multiple times, and that is pointless. That will go away if I can turn off the keyring, or it used to in 16.04. Assuming that behaviour is unchanged, getting rid of this thing will get me back to where I need to be.
The best advice I've found so far was to remove execute permission from /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-3 and gnome-keyring-daemon, which I tried, but it did nothing. No luck. The silly thing keeps working, though I honestly don't know how the daemon restarts after I've turned off write permission to it. That makes no sense at all. I haven't rebooted yet, but maybe I need to do that.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thank you. This software is very intrusive and really needs a simple way to be removed or disabled.