Integration with KWallet about howdy HOT 5 CLOSED

I have very little knowledge of arch, but i'm guessing that KDE Wallet is the equivalent of Gnome Keyring on Ubuntu. Keyring stores all saved passwords in encrypted form on disk. The reason this will always prompt for a password is that your login password is also the encryption key, without it no saved passwords can be read.

There is a solution, but it's an absolute security nightmare. By setting an empty password for the keyring you store the passwords in plain text and thus eliminate the need for a password on login. A very heavy trade of between speed and security.

from howdy.

Thanks for you response. It's surely not a good idea to ask KDE Wallet to store passwords in plain text :) Unfortunately, this means that it's going to be difficult to use Howdy in my scenario. In any case, I thank you for such a nice software. Hope you continue the good work!

from howdy.

The information in the ArchWiki entry for KDE Wallet might work for you @bangar1991.

It seems you will need to install kwallet-pam with no further configuration (as long as you haven't removed any lines from /etc/pam.d/sddm)

from howdy.

@KelleyMcChes Thanks for your comment. kwallet-pam is installed by default on my system and PAM configuration is setup correctly as well. The problem, I think, is when I login using howdy and don't enter the login password, kwallet-pam authentication module is not even invoked (howdy is set as sufficient). Even if it did get invoked somehow, it relies on its master password being the same as login password so that when login password is entered, KDE wallet is unlocked automatically. Since I don't enter any, it remains locked.

This is based on my limited understanding of PAM. Feel free to correct me of course.

from howdy.

I think you're correct, especially after reading "The wallet cannot be unlocked when using autologin." on that wiki page. There's no real way around this except storing the password within howdy, which is a liability i do not want to have.

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