Feature request: keep vault open indefinitely about rbw HOT 3 CLOSED

I'm not sure if special handling is needed here.

That may not be the cleanest approach, but max value for the lock_timeout is 2^64 - 1 and its equivalent of ~ 584 * 10^9 years., so there's a lot of headroom.

So you should be able to just set it to a big value, e.g. to lock the vault after ten years you'd use lock_timeout: 315360000

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That may not be the cleanest approach, but max value for the lock_timeout is 2^64 - 1 and its equivalent of ~ 584 * 10^9 years., so there's a lot of headroom.

The vault would still be locked after a reboot/shutdown which defeats the purpose for me. I do not want to have to unlock the vault after starting the computer.

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this is not a feature i am interested in supporting within rbw itself (beyond the existing functionality of setting lock_timeout to a high value), but you can likely get the user experience you want by using something like https://github.com/doy/rbw/blob/main/bin/rbw-pinentry-keyring to read your master password from your system keyring - this would mean you wouldn't have to enter any passwords other than whatever is necessary to unlock your keyring.

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