• chromium refuses to store passwords

    From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Sat Apr 20 17:31:26 2024
    Chromium
    Version 111.0.5563.64 (Developer Build) Mageia.Org 8 (64-bit)

    It refuses to store passwords even though I have told it to do so. I go
    to password manager and nothing is there. I imported a bunch of
    passwords from Chrome, and nothing was stored. Chrome works fine with
    this.

    The one weirdness is that when I open chromium, often I get a request
    for password for kdewallet. I oput in the password, that password
    request windows shuts But nothing seems to work.

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Sat Apr 20 18:48:28 2024
    On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:31:26 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:

    Chromium
    Version 111.0.5563.64 (Developer Build) Mageia.Org 8 (64-bit)

    It refuses to store passwords even though I have told it to do so. I go
    to password manager and nothing is there. I imported a bunch of
    passwords from Chrome, and nothing was stored. Chrome works fine with
    this.

    The one weirdness is that when I open chromium, often I get a request
    for password for kdewallet. I oput in the password, that password
    request windows shuts But nothing seems to work.

    First double check the file ownership.
    Use "tree -ifaugp" piped to grep -v to exclude the files that have your id and group.

    https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Never_use_just_su

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Sun Apr 21 06:10:17 2024
    On 2024-04-20, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:31:26 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:

    Chromium
    Version 111.0.5563.64 (Developer Build) Mageia.Org 8 (64-bit)

    It refuses to store passwords even though I have told it to do so. I go
    to password manager and nothing is there. I imported a bunch of
    passwords from Chrome, and nothing was stored. Chrome works fine with
    this.

    The one weirdness is that when I open chromium, often I get a request
    for password for kdewallet. I oput in the password, that password
    request windows shuts But nothing seems to work.

    First double check the file ownership.
    Use "tree -ifaugp" piped to grep -v to exclude the files that have your id and
    group.

    I seen nothing there .



    https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Never_use_just_su

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From Markus Robert Kessler@2:250/1 to All on Sun Apr 21 12:27:23 2024
    On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 05:10:17 -0000 (UTC) William Unruh wrote:

    On 2024-04-20, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:31:26 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
    wrote:

    Chromium Version 111.0.5563.64 (Developer Build) Mageia.Org 8 (64-bit)

    It refuses to store passwords even though I have told it to do so. I
    go to password manager and nothing is there. I imported a bunch of
    passwords from Chrome, and nothing was stored. Chrome works fine with
    this.

    The one weirdness is that when I open chromium, often I get a request
    for password for kdewallet. I oput in the password, that password
    request windows shuts But nothing seems to work.

    First double check the file ownership.
    Use "tree -ifaugp" piped to grep -v to exclude the files that have your
    id and group.

    I seen nothing there .

    Don't know if this helps to solve the problem, but I had a similar issue
    with MGA9. I got asked for wallet pw whenever I invoked chromium browser,
    and, even worse, opening firefox as a different user was terribly slow. Therefore I opened a shell and made a ' su - newuser', and then 'firefox'.
    To open this window took 10..20 seconds.

    After removing the packages reading *keyring* (rpm -e --nodeps gnome-
    keyring lib64gnome-keyring) everything is fast again and no annoying
    password requestsany more.

    Best regards,

    Markus

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  • From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Sun Apr 21 18:02:19 2024
    On 2024-04-21, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
    On 2024-04-20, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:31:26 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote: >>
    Chromium
    Version 111.0.5563.64 (Developer Build) Mageia.Org 8 (64-bit)

    It refuses to store passwords even though I have told it to do so. I go
    to password manager and nothing is there. I imported a bunch of
    passwords from Chrome, and nothing was stored. Chrome works fine with
    this.

    The one weirdness is that when I open chromium, often I get a request
    for password for kdewallet. I oput in the password, that password
    request windows shuts But nothing seems to work.

    First double check the file ownership.
    Use "tree -ifaugp" piped to grep -v to exclude the files that have your id and
    group.

    I seen nothing there .



    https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Never_use_just_su


    I finally got disgusted and erased all of .config/chromium directory,
    restarted chrommium, and inported the passwords from chrome. It worked.
    But this is clearly a demolition ball approach. This destroyed
    everything in chromium that I had set up. In addition to this, the
    totally stupid message pops up every time I open chromium.

    See results closer to you?
    To get the closest results, let Google use your device's precise location.
    Use precise location
    Not now

    Which is really really annoying. Does anyone know how to block this? It
    is clearly an attempt by Google to track the user

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Sun Apr 21 15:59:42 2024
    On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 01:10:17 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
    On 2024-04-20, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:31:26 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote: >>> Chromium
    Version 111.0.5563.64 (Developer Build) Mageia.Org 8 (64-bit)
    It refuses to store passwords even though I have told it to do so. I go
    to password manager and nothing is there. I imported a bunch of
    passwords from Chrome, and nothing was stored. Chrome works fine with
    this.

    The one weirdness is that when I open chromium, often I get a request
    for password for kdewallet. I oput in the password, that password
    request windows shuts But nothing seems to work.

    First double check the file ownership.
    Use "tree -ifaugp" piped to grep -v to exclude the files that have your id and
    group.

    I seen nothing there .

    Is this the same as https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27702

    In my case I'm running chromium under plasma but I have always had kwallet disabled in this install, so the passwords are stored in chromiums sql database in ~/.config, and that's working fine for me.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Sun Apr 21 18:41:28 2024
    On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:02:19 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote: <snip>
    I finally got disgusted and erased all of .config/chromium directory, restarted chrommium, and inported the passwords from chrome. It worked.
    But this is clearly a demolition ball approach. This destroyed
    everything in chromium that I had set up. In addition to this, the
    totally stupid message pops up every time I open chromium.

    See results closer to you?
    To get the closest results, let Google use your device's precise location. Use precise location
    Not now

    Which is really really annoying. Does anyone know how to block this? It
    is clearly an attempt by Google to track the user

    I don't recall ever seeing that with chromium-browser.

    Go through the settings. Start by searching for "location", but it's a good idea to review, and if wanted change each all settings, not just location specific settings.

    That's one of the first things I do when starting use of any browser. I disable most things, as I avoid things like desktop specific password managers.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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