[X2Go-User] gnome keyring unlock with login

Ulf Volmer u.volmer at u-v.de
Fri Aug 26 17:44:18 CEST 2022


On 25.08.22 21:33, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote:
> My debian system is set up to unlock the gnome keyring when I log into
> gnome.  When I remote into the machine using x2go I have to use xfce
> since gnome hasn't worked with x2go for a long time.  I have tried many
> things in xfce to  try to have the gnome keyring unlocked at login.  It
> seems like the problem is that x2go does not log in the same way as
> would be logged in if logging directly.  X2go does not appear to
> trigger any of the pam settings to unlock the gnome keyring.  Is there
> any way to have x2go automatically unlock the keyring when making a
> connection?  I would assume that if the keyring was unlocked when
> creating the connection that it would remain unlocked on a pause and
> reconnect.

I'm not using gnome-keyring, so I just guessing:

AFAIK x2go is using the sshd pam setting. So I would try to add

session optional        pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start

at the end of /etc/pam.d/sshd

Best regards
Ulf


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