I have this issue with Google where apps ask for authentication because my password no longer jives with the key ring on my system. A Google search finds a history of this. But it seems undefined. Since I have not changed my password, and you would think after half dozen fresh installs, Google Chrome and Chromium show this dialog for authentication. Then every time I cancel out of the dialog three times and the issue seems to disapear. I fear there are side effects I have not realized. Gemini swears that I okayed some auto authentication during installation, but I don’t think so. Any ideas will be refreshing.
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I tried Seahorse. How do you log into it when the password used to login, not to mention the password created when installing the system (is there even an option to select automatic login?). I have changed my password so I remember both the current one, which seem to work okay, and the previous one and neither suit Seahorse. Again, this happens after multiple wipes and reinstalls. I’d love to access the keyring password as a workaround, but at this point I don’t know how to do this, and everything works except Chrome and Chromium and in its case I just have to cancel three times and I am in. Is this not weird?
Then I would limit the issue to Google Chrome/Chromium only.
What is the output of dnf list --installed {*chrome*,*chromium*}?
Does it change if you create a new profile for each app and set them as default, then open the browsers again?
What is “automatic login” anyway? I have never heard of it, nor have ever selected to have it. Folks should not broach this purported issue unless there is at least some way to troubleshoot it – preferably at a low level.
You didn’t mention what version of Fedora are you on, nor what DE are you using. Assuming you’re using GNOME, then in Settings → System → Users → YourUser there is the Automatic login option. If checked, after booting, the system doesn’t present the display/session manager for entering user and password, but rather logs the user in automatically. Is your system on such a setup?
Are you saying it should be!