I'm being asked to input my password after logging in with biometrics on Fedora 38, using GNOME
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This is the message that pops up - **Enter password to unlock your login keyring
The login keyring did not get unlocked when you logged into your computer.**
From what I've read online, it's a security measure. But if you enter your password on login, this won't pop up since the keyring is unlocked when that password is entered.
But now when I use my fingerprint reader to log into my laptop, it asks for the password after. I should also add that this wasn't the case initially. It only started doing this after a couple of months or so - I'm not sure if an update to Fedora prompted this or not. It's not the end of the world, but annoying. I can just use my password, but then the fingerprint reader is less useful.
I read that you can manage this in Passwords and Keys (formerly Seahorse), but it's not installed natively on Fedora, apparently it is on Ubuntu. If I install Seahorse now, could I use it to manage this? Or is there something in Fedora other than Seahorse, that could do the same thing? I saw a similar post about this here - https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/671075/585410 - My fingerprint reader does let me into my computer, I just still have to use my password to unlock the keyring. It works fine for everything else (making changes, sudo commands in terminal, etc).
Thank you in advance, and I apologize in advance - still learning Linux.

Asked by sbarnard86
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Sep 12, 2023, 04:39 AM
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