Is there a way to make Chromium stop asking for a keyring

[Red Squirrel]

I have Chromium which I never use as my main browser but is default and vanilla and has no extensions or anything, so I sometimes use it to confirm if a web page is not working because of my extensions. Or if I simply need to login as a different user to test something. Problem is, it's constantly asking for a keyring. No idea what that even is, but it's super annoying. It just won't stop popping up. When I first open it it will ask like 3 times then when I close it it asks again, and it will randomly ask at some other times while it's on.

Is there a way to stop that from happening? This seems to happen on any machine.

 

[Mike64]

Spoiler: <crickets chirp>

Yes, there is. But you didn't really want anyone to to actually Google that for you, now did you?/

 

[Red Squirrel]

Didn't really find much when I searched. There's a way to do it through command line but that's kind of a crappy fix, I want to launch it from the icon not type the command each time in the terminal. I'm hoping there's a setting somewhere within chrome I can maybe change. But have not found much.

Some day to go to "passwords and keys" but no idea where that is.

 

[mrblotto]

I get the same thing. I tried one fix - something about deleting the default keyring. I think it worked, until I rebooted :/

 

[Mike64]

Well, I suppose this - the lack of "one size fits all" solutions to issues like this - sort of illustrates one of the bigger reasons that Linux hasn't (and likely won't ever) "take over" the personal computing world... Exactly which distro(s), and what version(s) of Chromium, are you using?

ETA: I don't know which fix that-works-but-is-crappy you're referring to - there seem to be a few things that can be done from the command line depending on your specific environment - but Is there some reason you don't want to just create a desktop icon that will start Chromium with an appropriately "therapeutic" option or switch, or if it's something else, run the fix and then launch Chromium?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah the whole "depends on your setup" stuff is what makes stuff really complicated and annoying. Companies don't want to write software and try to support a billion distros.

In my case I'm using Linux Mint 17. I think on the other machine where it does it I'm running 18. Chrome is just the one that is part of package manager.

I suppose if the command line fix works I could just replace the icon with a shell script, but that seems a bit dirty imo. You also can't directly execute a shell script in Linux from an icon like you can in windows so I'd have to right click and execute each time.

 

[mxnerd]

https://askubuntu.com/questions/884...nd-is-it-possible-to-remove-it-without-giving

Chrome asks for the password when your account is set for autologin. Doing this makes it so that the keyring doesn't load when you reset/reboot your system.

Chrome is asking for the password to the keyring so it can access stored information in the keyring. You can view the keyring on your system by running the command seahorse from a terminal window. You can also just bypass the asking by closing the window and still get to your sites without a problem. Some of the security may not load properly.

However, you can use the following command from a terminal window to bypass the keyring asking:

google-chrome-stable --password-store=basic

 

[Red Squirrel]

Is there a way to make that setting default, I don't really want to have to remember that command and have to launch it from a console each time. BUt I did try it and it did work, but for me its:

chromium-browser --password-store=basic

 

[Ken g6]

For lots of browser options you have to edit the icon you launch the browser with. How you do that varies depending on where the icon is.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Oh right didn't think of that. I found that you can indeed add command lines in the icon itself. I just edited the desktop icon and it seems to have fixed it now. No more annoying prompts every time I turn around. It would pop up 3-4 times at startup and then randomly throughout it's use then again on exit. I don't use it often as FF is my main browser but I just like having a secondary usable browser for various purposes like logging into a web app with two logins to test something or what not.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Set the keyring password to blank (nothing). I think that is what worked for me. But everytime Chrome updates I had to redo the password to nothing again.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Not even sure what is a keyring or how to set it. I was just hitting cancel, but it was just annoying having to do it like 3-4 times every time it launched, or at random.