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!
I know this bug rises from time to time. There seems to no root cause ever mentioned. But it might be a cause of concern because even though the desktop acts like authentication for chrome it is really actually it is doing nothing. All you have to do is click CANCEL a couple of times and you are in. Even when going through the Gnome gateway into online accounts, it may seem like it is doing something, but it is not. The gateway way lets user in without checking auth. I have spent a lot of changing passwords, toggling toggles, and going around in circles to no avail. I don’t really know how to replicate this phenomenon. But I have to give up and move on. If any system logs or any thing else I can provide, let me know. But please be specific with consideration for things I have already done.