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Bug 616801 - "Enter password to unlock your login keyring" doesn't tell you why
"Enter password to unlock your login keyring" doesn't tell you why
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 574315
Product: gnome-keyring
Classification: Core
Component: prompting
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME keyring maintainer(s)
GNOME keyring maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-04-25 21:53 UTC by Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Modified: 2012-03-15 09:29 UTC
See Also:
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Description Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) 2010-04-25 21:53:03 UTC 
According to <http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-keyring/tree/daemon/dbus/gkd-secret-unlock.c>, gnome-keyring can put up an authentication alert with this text.

    Enter password for to unlock your login keyring

The "for" is the subject of bug 614462. But there's a more difficult problem here, which is that the message gives no hint of why you're being asked to unlock your keyring.

Ideal, perhaps, would be something like

    The application “Evolution” wants access to your keyring to log in to your
    mail accounts.

Even something like

    The application “Evolution” wants access to your keyring.

would be a vast improvement.
Comment 1 Stef Walter 2010-07-29 08:06:57 UTC 
Yes I agree. However we need to be able to look up application names from process names (perhaps using desktop files). This is not trivial, but maybe other projects are doing the same thing.

Previously we used process names, which didn't really work at all: We ended up with stuff like: "python" would like to access...
Comment 2 Stef Walter 2012-03-15 09:29:43 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 574315 ***