inconsistent and unneeded password prompts

[Nicolas Damgaard Larsen]

On several occasions I have experienced that gnome-keyring prompts to be unlocked when I believe it should not.
* I have Spotify installed as a .deb. When starting Spotify, on some occasions gnome-keyring prompts to be unlocked, on others not. This behaviour has been observed both when gnome-keyring has been unlocked in advance as well as when not. I have not added my Spotify password to gnome-keyring.
* same behaviour as described above when starting Lutris. Did also not add any Lutris related passwords to gnome-keyring.
* similar behaviour is observed with other applications where no passwords have been added to gnome-keyring.

Whether or not I actually unlock the keyring, it has no functional impact in these cases.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-keyring 3.36.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-50.56~20.04.1-generic 5.8.18
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-50-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.17
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri May 14 13:24:00 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-05-09 (369 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
SourcePackage: gnome-keyring
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Are you using auto-logging? The keyring needs to be unlocked with a password when you start the session, if you use password login and the keyring has the same secret then it's automatically unlocked but otherwise the first software to try to use it is going to trigger the prompting...

[Nicolas Damgaard Larsen (ndl101)]

I appreciate your reply.

> Are you using auto-logging?
On this machine I am using auto-login, yes.

> if you use password login and the keyring has the same secret then it's automatically unlocked
As already stated, this behaviour has been observed both when the keyring has been unlocked and when not.

> the first software to try to use it is going to trigger the prompting
This behaviour has also been observed for applications not requesting for passwords.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

sorry but it's a bit unclear from the description what the issue is, it just sounds like those softwares do try to read the keyring for whatever reason, could be to check if there is a stored credential and to do that they need to unlock the keyring, it doesn't sound a bug

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