KDE Wallet
KDE Wallet Manager is a tool to manage the passwords on your KDE system. By using the KDE wallet subsystem it not only allows you to keep your own secrets but also to access and manage the passwords of every application that integrates with the KDE wallet.
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Unlock KDE Wallet automatically on login
If your KDE Wallet password is the same as your username password, you can unlock your wallet automatically on login.
Install the pam_kwallet-gitAUR package.
Then edit /etc/pam.d/kde
and add the two lines under their corresponding sections:
auth optional pam_kwallet.so kdehome=.kde4 session optional pam_kwallet.so
Example /etc/pam.d/kde
#%PAM-1.0 auth include system-login auth optional pam_kwallet.so kdehome=.kde4 account include system-login password include system-login session include system-login session optional pam_kwallet.so
After restarting your wallet should unlock automatically if your user password is the same as your Kwallet password and you use a login manager like KDM.
Using the KDE Wallet to store ssh keys
First, make sure that you have an SSH agent running. For instructions on how to start and stop ssh-agent
on login and logout respectively follow these instructions.
Install the ksshaskpass package.
Create an autostart file (KDE4: ~/.kde4/Autostart/ssh-add.sh
, KDE Plasma: ~/.config/autostart/ssh-add.sh
) with this content:
#!/bin/sh ssh-add </dev/null
KDE Plasma may have a bug where it will not run start up scripts. As a work around, you'll have to create a startup .desktop file ~/.config/autostart/ssh-add.desktop
:
[Desktop Entry] Exec=~/.config/autostart/ssh-add.sh Icon=system-run StartupNotify=true Terminal=false Type=Application
Make it executable and run it:
$ chmod +x ~/.kde4/Autostart/ssh-add.sh $ ~/.kde4/Autostart/ssh-add.sh
You may also have to source the script that sets the SSH_ASKPASS
environment variable:
$ eval $(. /etc/profile.d/ksshaskpass.sh)
It will ask for your password and unlock your SSH keys. Upon restart your SSH keys should be unlocked once you give your kwallet password.
To add a new key and store the password with kwallet use the following command
$ ssh-add /path/to/new/key </dev/null
and append the key to the list of keys in ~/.kde4/Autostart/ssh-add.sh
as explained above to have it unlocked upon providing the kwallet password.
KDE Wallet for firefox
There is an addon to make firefox store passwords with KDE wallet.
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Firefox+addon+for+kwallet?content=116886
KDE Wallet for chromium
Chromium has built in wallet integration. To enable it, run Chromium with the --password-store=kwallet
or --password-store=detect
argument.