Chromium etc prompts me for a password every time I log in

[Richmond]

I enter it when I log in.

The laptop is connected to a television so it is inconvenient to keep
going to the keyboard to enter passwords. Once would be much better than
twice.


On 10/01/2025 09:34, Colin Law wrote:
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> On Thu, 9 Jan 2025, 23:30 Richmond via ubuntu-users,
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>>
> wrote:
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>     Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
>
>     When I log into Gnome, if I run Chromium, Google-chrome, or
>     Protonvpn, I
>     am prompted for a password for the key ring. I don't want to do away
>     with the password as it is necessary to encrypt the passwords in
>     the key
>     ring. But is there a way to make it use the login password so it
>     doesn't
>     prompt every time? or maybe a hash of the login password?
>
>
> Do you enter your password when you power up the PC and login, or have
> you got auto login enabled? 
>
> Colin L.
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