On desktop, we need a password-less keyring for autopilot tests

[Leo Arias]

When we try to add credentials to online accounts on the desktop, the keyring dialog will be opened asking for a password. We need to find a way to work this around.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

Because of this bug, the online accounts tests are not running on utopic, and we are not able to add the download test for the click scope.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

Comment from dobey:

You can just create an empty keyring with no password and shove it in
place of the default keyring file. Not sure how the Jenkins instances
are being set up, but with puppet we'd just include it in the base
config and have puppet copy the file in when the instance is built.

You DO NOT want to just have the tests copy a keyring file to the user's
keyring directory and overwriting their keyring though. That would be
VERY BAD for anyone running the tests on their live system. :)

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

The two files attached need to be saved at ~/.local/share/keyrings

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

Just rerun the tests in the attached branch. When they pass, it means that the passwordless keyring is working.
When they fail because the credentials time out, that means is not yet working.

[Alberto Mardegan (mardy)]

Removing the online-accounts project from this bug, given that no action seems to be required from us.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[dobey (dobey)]

Looking through the click scope bugs and came across this again. I think rather than having a keyring without a password, what we will need is a fixture in autopilot which uses dbusmock to provide a faked keyring service, and having all autopilot tests run under the dbusmock private session, rather than interacting with a live system. This will allow the tests to be run more reliably in a contained environment, when running the tests during normal development and CI processes, and should be able to provide a way to have the tests run against live services as well, when we need to run things on a live device image.