Problems with kdepim4

Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.developer at outlook.com
Mon May 25 15:27:24 PDT 2015


On Monday, May 25, 2015 06:13:16 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> On Monday, May 25, 2015 09:35:07 PM René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> > Do you have a reason not to use kdelibs4 with the +osxkeychain variant
> > which makes KWallet use a "native" backend, and you no longer need
> > kwalletd? This also ensures that password dialogs always open in front
> > and not behind all other windows, and removes timeout glitches in kmail,
> > like when you send an email and you don't enter your kwallet password
> > fast enough.
> > 
> > R
> 
> I wasn't aware of that variant, but I just tried it and now I got a reason
> not to use it: I don't want to protect my password, I just want kmail to
> remember it so I don't have to type it every time. That used to be a
> feature in kmail but AFAIK at some point it started relaying on kwallet to
> remember passwords. If you don't want to type a password every time the
> workaround is to set a kwallet with a blank password. I tried to do the
> same with the native keychain and it won't let me. So unless somebody knows
> how it can be done I have to go back to kwalletd :(

I'm confused now. It looks like OSX does allow a password keychain but you 
have to set a password and then change it to a blank one. But as soon as I 
installed the +osxkeychain variant and restarted akonadi it asked me to setup 
a password for the keychain, I choose "letmein" and now every time I login it 
ask me for it. Now I'm looking for the keychain on the Keychain Access utility 
and I can't find it. So I installed the kwallet package (kwalletd is part of 
some other package) and on kwalletmanager I see that it's using the "login" 
keychain which opens with my OSX user password. So where is the letmein 
password and how can I change it?



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