Use keyctl instead of the gnome-keyring

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Use keyctl instead of the gnome-keyring

[rgbkrk]

In particular, keyctl.

I'd start building up a PR, but only have so much time.

[kevinsawicki]

Thanks for the suggestion /cc @zcbenz

[rgbkrk]

The annoying thing is that gnome-keyring is great for userland tools but not everyone is using gnome. They can always set up gnome-keyring if they need to though.

[zcbenz]

A PR to switch to keyctl would be appreciated.

[ramSeraph]

I want to take up this issue. Anyone I can talk to regarding this?

[50Wliu]

Anyone I can talk to regarding this?

@zcbenz would probably be your best bet.

[jbdatko]

I looked into this a bit, and I don't think key's in the kernel keyring persist after reboot. It exposes a procfs, but all of the keyctl operations manipulate in-memory data structures as best as I can tell from reading the docs.

I am not an expert in this subsystem however.

[implausible]

I'm following up on @jbdatko, I also went through the documentation and did some experiments with keyctl. Keyctl is not designed to persist keys across reboots. Forewarning for anyone looking at the get_persistent methods in keyctl: I believe persistent means across sessions, but not across reboots.