I use the Nextcloud desktop client on Ubuntu ( specific case Mint Cinnamon 21.2).
I log in to the system via fingerprint. From then on I have access to everything … Logged in programs like Thunderbird, Joplin … root rights in GUI and Shell … but not to the NC Desktop Client. Because here the credentials for my cloud are stored in the keyring, which can not be unlocked with the fingerprint.
Unlocking the keyring by fingerprint seems impossible. Is it possible to save the login data of the Nextcloud client in another way, not in the keyring?
And I hope they never “fix” that, because I think using the keyring is the right way to do it.
Anyways, the correct and secure way to handle your usecase would be to log in once with your password, after starting the computer, and then only use your fingerprint to unlock the screen after you’re logged in, just as you’re doing it on your smartphone.
Or you could use the following insecure method:
DON’T DO THE FOLLOWING if you’re not using Full Disk Encryption! Otherwise anybody with physical access to your device can steal your passwords!!
Install Seahorse (GUI for GNOME Keyring), edit the password in there, respectively set it to a blank password. This will unencrypt the keyring permanently, and no password will be needed again.
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If so, please always use a different complex password everywhere!
My concern here is the right balance between comfort and safety. No keyring password is also my standard solution. Alternatives are everywhere the same short simple password or change to MS Windows.
But I did not want to write about that …
Other programs (like those listed: Thunderbird, Firefox, Joplin) do not use the (Gnome) keyring. Here you can manage everyday life without having to enter a password all the time, and you are still safe.
What does this have to do with the issue at hand? In this case, you only need to remember a single password, the one to log-in to your computer, which also unlocks GNOME keyring.
With a strong tendency towards comfort, if I understand you correctly
If you enter your password once after starting up your computer, the GNOME keychain will be unlocked. You can then use the fingerprint every to unlock your screen without having to re-enter the password until you restart your computer.
Well that depends on how securely each of these applications will store these passwords.
