[Bug 1451865]

8-kde 1451865 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Aug 4 17:07:31 UTC 2015


(In reply to Cjacker from comment #9)
> pam_kwallet still had some limitions:
> 
> 1, it only handle wallet named 'kdewallet'.
> 
> 2, If you had 'kdewallet' created already, need to set the wallet password
> as same as account password.
> 
> 3, it did not implement 'pam_sm_chauthtok' currently, that's to say, use
> 'passwd' utility  to change account password,  will NOT change 'wallet'
> password, kwallet still use the old password, you need to change it manually.
> 
> I checked kwalletd/kwallet codes and found it is REALLY difficult to change
> runtime kwallet password via pam_sm_chauthtok.  kwallet load everything to
> memory, if password changed via kwalletmanager5, it will sync back via
> kwallet backend.  change 'salt' from outside can not change the password of
> wallet.

This one is true. But good news - the replacement KSecrets Service will
handle that for you automagically.

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  Kwallet is no longer automatically unlocked on login

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