gnome-keyring-daemon - Man Page

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The gnome-keyring-daemon is a service that stores your passwords and secrets​. It is normally started automatically when a user logs into a desktop session​.

The gnome-keyring-daemon implements the DBus Secret Service API, and you can use tools like seahorse or secret-tool to interact with it​.

The daemon also implements a GnuPG and SSH agent both of which automatically load the user's keys, and prompt for passwords when necessary​.

The daemon will print out various environment variables which should be set in the user's environment, in order to interact with the daemon​.

The various startup arguments below can be used:

-c,  --components=ssh,secrets,pkcs11

Ask the daemon to only initialize certain components​. Valid components are ssh, secrets, pkcs11​.

By default all components are initialized​.

-C,  --control-directory=/path/to/directory

Use this directory for creating communication sockets​. By default a temporary directory is automatically created​.

-d,  --daemonize

Run as a real daemon, disconnected from the terminal​.

-f,  --foreground

Run in the foreground, and do not fork or become a daemon​.

-l,  --login

This argument tells the daemon it is being run by PAM​. It reads all of stdin (including any newlines) as a login password and does not complete actual initialization​.

The daemon should later be initialized with a gnome-keyring-daemon ​--start invocation​.

This option implies --unlock​. It may not be used together with either the --replace or --start arguments​.

-r,  --replace

Try to replace a running keyring daemon, and assume its environment variables​. A successful replacement depends on the GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL environment variable being set by an earlier daemon​.

This option may not be used together with either the --login or --start arguments​.

-s,  --start

Connect to an already running daemon and initialize it​. This is often used to complete initialization of a daemon that was started by PAM using the --login argument​.

This option may not be used together with either the --login or --replace arguments​.

--unlock

Read a password from stdin, and use it to unlock the login keyring or create it if the login keyring does not exist​.

-V,  --version

Print out the gnome-keyring version and then exit​.

-h,  --help

Show help options and exit​.

Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at https://gitlab​.gnome​.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/-/issues/

secret-tool(1), seahorse(1)

Further details available in the gnome-keyring online documentation at https://wiki​.gnome​.org/GnomeKeyring and in the secret-service online documentation at http://standards​.freedesktop​.org/secret-service/