I've just installed Fedora 22. At several times, I'm asked for setting a NEW keyring password, including setting my E-mail account. The process defaults E-mail account password as a keyring password. I've never encounter a keyring concept yet. So I wonder how and why.
Basically gnome-keyring is an application for storing your passwords, SSH keys, certificates etc. Think of it like some kind of password manager.
Official explanation is: "GNOME Keyring is a collection of components in GNOME that store secrets, passwords, keys, certificates and make them available to applications."
I personally use it for caching my private SSH key passphrase and similar things so I believe it's good enough. So my general recommendation is to use it, but final decision is up to you :-)
Asked: 2015-06-02 07:37:22 -0600
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Last updated: Jun 02 '15
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