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Discussion on: How to Fix Google Chrome/Chromium asks for password to unlock keyring in Linux

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Phil Ashby

It seems this has been a bugbear with Chromium-based credentials storage for a while:
askubuntu.com/questions/31786/chro...

Switching to unencrypted credential storage as this workaround does may not be the best idea (it might bork access to Gmail and other services that check). It's good to be aware of the impacts of security changes ;)

The linked thread above has a few other suggestions, in particular setting the keyring password to be your login password, will allow automatic unlocking, in a similar manner to unlocking an encrypted /home folder.... YMMV.

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Mir Rahed Uddin

Sorry for the late reply. Yes, You are right. It might create some security issues. But the problem is I don't want to put keyring password every time whenever I launch these applications. The ask ubuntu forum link which you have mentioned also refers to the same solution (most of them) in a different way. Do you know any better solutions, please discuss them with us. It may help. Thanks