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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 daemon 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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