Re: How to store credentials ?

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 04/10/2026 à 10:35, Bruce Steers a écrit :
>     At the moment only KDE and GNOME-like desktops are supported: LXDE,
>     MATE, XFCE, UNITY.
>
>     How does CINNAMON is supposed to store passwords? Like Gnome, witht the
>     'secret-tool' command line program?
>
>     -- 
>     Benoît Minisini.
>
>
> It's been my experience that Cinnamon is "very" similar to MATE. they 
> are both offshoots of Gnome2 and a lot of things that work in MATE work 
> in a similar way on Cinnamon.
>
> For example the DBus Inhibitor
> DBus["session://org.gnome.SessionManager"]["/org/gnome/SessionManager", 
> "org.gnome.SessionManager"].Inhibit(Identity, Application.Id, Reason, Flags)
> That'll work on both MATE and Cinnamon but not on others i've tried.
>
> My guess would be whatever works for MATE (secret-tool) would "probably" 
> also work on Cinnamon
>
> Respects
> BruceS

Yes, I think so.

But it's more complex than that, because there are a lot of different 
tools for storing passwords on Linux, beside the KDE and Gnome tools.

For example, someone may want to decide to use the 'pass' tool even on 
KDE or Gnome to store the passwords. Only the passwords managed by KDE 
or Gnome applications will be stored in their own safe

At the moment, I will stay with 'secret-tool' on non KDE systems. I 
didn't find a way to store/retrieve passwords outside of this tool (like 
on KDE where there is a DBus API). If someone have more information 
about that, he will be welcome!

Regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.