https://www.dennogumi.org/tags/kwallet/ Recent content in Kwallet on dennogumi.org Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us &copy; 2026 Einar under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. Some images are AI-generated. Header design by [Melissa Adkins](https://melissaadkins.com) with [assets from Freepik](https://freepik.com). Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:02:06 +0000 https://www.dennogumi.org/2014/04/unlocking-kwallet-with-pam/ Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:02:06 +0000 https://www.dennogumi.org/2014/04/unlocking-kwallet-with-pam/ <p>Requests to unlock KWallet automatically on login (assuming the wallet password and user password are the same), like gnome-keyring can do, have been going on for years: in fact, <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92845" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bug reports requesting this feature are quite old</a>.  Recently, thanks to the efforts of Alex Fiestas, a PAM module, which interfaces KWallet to the system authentication methods, has been developed. In parallel, the necessary glue code has been also added to the various parts of the KDE workspace so that it could make use of it.</p>