Thanks for you reply Mark. The way you put it makes sense. I guess the option is whether I would like to have the security risk of having my passwords open without needing any kind of authentication. But that depends on whether I can bypass needing to enter a password on autologin in the first please, or if it's not possible. On 18 December 2012 10:17, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Stephen Griffiths > wrote: > > Is there some kind of rule where if you AutoLogin, you require some kind > of > > authentication when it comes to unlocking the keyring? > That's how the keyring works, in principle. The keyring is a > password-protected secret, and a typical desktop system would be setup > so that the login password you used was also used to unlock the > keyring. With autologin, no password is typed in, so gnome-keyring has > no way of being unlocked without asking you for a password. > > -- > This email is: [ ] actionable [x] fyi [ ] social > Response needed: [ ] yes [x] up to you [ ] no > Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate [ ] soon [x] none > > -- Kind Regards, Stephen Griffiths [image: Email steve@stevegriff.com][image: Twitter] [image: Facebook][image: Google+] [image: LinkedIn]