Bug#1142693: greetd: Regression: keyring is not automatically opened at login

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Control: reassign -1 gnome-keyring
Control: affects -1 greetd

On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 09:08:28AM +0200, Daniel Dehennin wrote:
> Package: greetd
> Version: 0.10.3-6
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> After the update of PAM configuration to include common-* instead of login
> (#1140127), I was surprised that my keyring ask for a password.
> 
> I found that pam_gnome_keyring and pam_kwallet5 were removed in the process.
> 
> The /etc/pam.d/common-password has the gnome-keyring line but not /etc/pam.d/common-session.
> 
> So, it seems that the “session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start” is missing.

It seems *to me* unlikely that each package should work around this, 
so maybe the gnome-keyring maintainers can chime in here, and 
ideally document the requirements for pam_gnome_keyring.so.

Best,
Chris