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gnome-keyring is a program that keeps passwords and other secrets for
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users. It is run as a damon in the session, similar to ssh-agent, and
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other applications can locate it by an environment variable.
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The program can manage several keyrings, each with its own master
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password, and there is also a session keyring which is never stored to
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disk, but forgotten when the session ends.
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The library libgnome-keyring is used by applications to integrate with
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the gnome keyring system. However, at this point the library hasn't
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been tested and used enough to consider the API to be publically exposed.
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Therefore use of libgnome-keyring is at the moment limited to internal
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use in the gnome desktop. However, we hope that the gnome-keyring API
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will turn out useful and good, so that later it can be made public for
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any application to use.
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