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Gnome-keyring is a program that keep password and other secrets for
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users. It is run as a damon in the session, similar to ssh-agent, and
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other applications can locate it by an environment variable.
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The program can manage several keyrings, each with its own master
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password, and there is also a session keyring which is never stored to
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disk, but forgotten when the session ends.
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The library libgnome-keyring is used by applications to integrate with
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the gnome keyring system. However, at this point the library hasn't been
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tested and used enought to consider the API to be publically
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exposed. Therefore use of libgnome-keyring is at the moment limited to
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internal use in the gnome desktop. However, we hope that the
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gnome-keyring API will turn out useful and good, so that later it
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can be made public for any application to use.
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-- Gnome-keyring README
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