16 Jul
2021
16 Jul
'21
3:46 p.m.
Hi Phlippe,
Thanks for the explanation. I have a couple of questions below.
On Fri, 16 Jul 2021, Mavridis Philippe wrote:
I think the Google Earth installation is not
unrelated. I remember
experiencing something like this on my systems, not only with Google
Earth (e.g. Vivaldi, Skype for Linux) and the culprit was apparently the
Gnome Keyring library (a GNOME analog of TDE Wallets, but there is only
one wallet and its password is the user's password) which is used by
some software to store keys, etc.
Google Earth seems to store some API-specific data it uses to connect to
Google servers in the Keyring.
Does this not cause any security issues? I mean does the password not get
stored on a google server? Also, would I enter the same password as my
user account? I normally do not setup a TDE Wallet or GNOME keyring.
Gianluca
Normally the keyring gets automatically unlocked on
logon without the
user even noticing. Sometimes it doesn't. This happens when the
appropriate service (don't remember which) is not started upon startup.
Then, the first time access is requested by one of the applications,
this prompt shows. It certainly seems like this happened in your case.
Hope this helps to find the solution.
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Mavridis Phlippe
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