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- gnome-keyring for Debian
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-
- Password caching
- ----------------
- GNOME keyring caches the passwords in memory, and when asked to, it will
- store them on disk (in .gnome2/keyrings). They are encrypted with the
- AES128 cipher, using a master password as key.
-
- Login keyring
- -------------
- If you use GDM, the GNOME keyring daemon is spawned directly at the time
- of authentication, and the keyring named "login" is unlocked. This
- keyring uses the authentication token as a master password.
-
- If you change your authentication password, you need to change the
- password for the login keyring as well. This can be done from
- seahorse-preferences (System->Preferences->Encryption and Keyrings). You
- can also automate this process by adding the following line to
- /etc/pam.d/common-password:
- password optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
-
- SSH agent
- ---------
- The GNOME keyring includes the functionality of the SSH agent, and it
- can break some setups, especially if ssh-agent is started by hand. If
- you want to disable it, you can set the
- /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh GConf key to false.
-