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I enabled the automatic login on Login SDDM. Now kwallet keeps asking for my password when the system starts. (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by bimbimboy@lemm.ee to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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I enabled the automatic login on Login SDDM

But now, every time I start my computer, kwallet asks for my password.

I kinda enabled the automatic login to not have to type my password, this kinda defeats the purpose of it @_@

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[–] vivien@lsbt.me 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@bimbimboy I think it's needed because kwallet does no longer get the password from the login via a PAM module, so it has no way to unlock the wallet that's encrypted with your password anymore.

[+] bimbimboy@lemm.ee -6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I see. I asked DeepSeek for some help, it suggested using kwallet-pam to fix it. Do you think it's the recommended approach?

[–] vivien@lsbt.me 7 points 6 months ago

@bimbimboy I don't think that would solve the problem. KWallet-PAM would be the way it gets the password from the login manager. PAM is the pluggable authentication modules framework, where you can plug in a module to do stuff during authentication, so kwallet inserts itself into the login process to read the password and unlock your wallet.

According to the arch linux wiki on KWallet: "When using autologin, the wallet can only be unlocked if the autologin method saves the password. pam_autologin does, for example." https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE/_Wallet maybe there is a way then.

[–] carl@kde.social 2 points 6 months ago

@bimbimboy @vivien yes you need kwallet-pan if it's not installed already

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Your options are:

Go back to logging in
Remove the password from kwallet
Store the password on disk somewhere so it can be auto unlocked

AFAIK there are no other options

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If you remove your kwallet password, it should stop asking you for a password, it's the only solution I've found to this problem. But that also means you're removing the password of your kwallet.