This is because when you login to your system with your password, your keyring is unlocked automatically with your account’s password. If you never used automatic login (or changed your account’s password), you might not even have realized that this feature exists. That’s a valid question if you have never seen this keyring thing in your Linux system. Sync paused in Google Chrome If this keyring always existed, why you never saw it? However, the saved password won’t be unlocked and you’ll see ‘sync paused’ in Chromium/Chrome browsers. If you keep on cancelling the prompt for keyring unlock, it will eventually go away and let you use the browser. the account password) can use the saved password in browser for logging in to their respective websites. This ensures that only the person who knows the keyring’s password (i.e. This is why when you try to use Chrome, it will ask you to unlock the keyring repeatedly. Anyone can use the browser and login to the websites for which you have saved password in your browser. Anyone with access to your desktop can enter the system without password but you have no issues with that perhaps because you use it to browse internet only.īut if you use a browser like Chromium or Google Chrome in Ubuntu, and use it to save your login-password for various websites, you have an issue on your hand. Remember I told you that the keyring was a security feature? Now imagine that on your Linux desktop, you are using auto-login. In such case, your keyring is not unlocked automatically. This means that you login to the system without entering the password. The problem comes when you switch to auto-login in Ubuntu. When you login to your system with your password, your keyring is unlocked automatically with your account’s password. By default, the keyring is locked with a master password which is often the login password of the account.Įvery user on your system has its own keyring with (usually) the same password as that of the user account itself. This keyring keeps your ssh keys, GPG keys and keys from applications that use this feature, like Chromium browser. Most desktop environments like GNOME, KDE, Xfce etc use an implementation of gnome-keyring to provide this keyring feature in Linux.
The keyring feature allows your system to group various passwords together and keep it one place.
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