Not working on linux

[JonMcEntee]

library('keyring') set_pass Error: object 'set_pass' not found key_set('jonmc', 'oracle') PASSWORD: ***** Error in warn_for_keyring(keyring) : argument "keyring" is missing, with no default In addition: Warning message: In default_backend_auto() : Selecting ‘env’ backend. Secrets are stored in environment variables

[gaborcsardi]

You don't have a keyring daemon running, it seems.

[JonMcEntee]

I know this isn't related to your code at all but, do you know how to start the libsecret daemon on linux? I already installed it using yum install libsecret

uname -r produces: 3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.x86_64

[gaborcsardi]

It should be automatically started when you log in from a GUI.

From a terminal, you can start it like this:

1. ssh -X <host>
2. dbus-run-session bash
3. gnome-keyring-daemon -r

I believe this requires fairly recent dbus packages.

[gorkang]

Hi @gaborcsardi ,

I had the same problem in an Ubuntu server (no GUI), so I manually started the keyring from a terminal as you suggested:

1. ssh -X <host>
2. dbus-run-session bash
3. gnome-keyring-daemon -r

** Message: Replacing daemon, using directory: /run/user/1002/keyring GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/run/user/1002/keyring SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1002/keyring/ssh

Then, from R:
keyring::key_set(service = "email", username = "name@domain.com")

But I get the following error:

PASSWORD: ***** ** Message: Remote error from secret service: org.freedesktop.Secret.Error.IsLocked: Cannot create an item in a locked collection Error in b_ss_set_with_value(self, private, service, username, password, : Secret service keyring error in 'set': 'Cannot create an item in a locked collection'

Please, let me know if you need any other info.

Cheers.

[gaborcsardi]

@gorkang The keyring is locked, you need to unlock it first. Unfortunately you need a GUI for that, AFAIK, at least a remote GUI.

[gaborcsardi]

Closing this, since the original issue is solved. Well, as much as possible.

[gorkang]

Thanks for your response @gaborcsardi

Not sure why, but even after unlocking the keyring (using seahorse remotely), I keep on getting the same error (it is very likely my own ignorance, though).

Funny enough, the code that for some strange reason seems to work is:

keyring::key_set(service = "email", username = "name@domain.com", keyring = "")

So, same code but with that last keyring = "" parameter.

Please, don't hesitate to let me know if I am doing something extremely stupid/unsafe.

[GreyZephyr]

I have also run into this problem. The problem for me was that the ssh terminal was not connecting to the existing dbus process. To get around this I added the following hack to my ~/.bash_profile

# set dbus for remote SSH connections
if [ -n "$SSH_CLIENT" -a -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then
        machine_id=$(LANGUAGE=C hostnamectl|grep 'Machine ID:'| sed 's/^.*: //')
        x_display=$(echo $DISPLAY|sed 's/^.*:\([0-9]\+\)\(\.[0-9]\+\)*$/\1/')
        dbus_session_file="$HOME/.dbus/session-bus/${machine_id}-${x_display}"
        if [ -r "$dbus_session_file" ]; then
                export $(grep '^DBUS.*=' "$dbus_session_file")
                # check if PID still running, if not launch dbus
                ps $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID | tail -1 | grep dbus-daemon >& /dev/null
                [ "$?" != "0" ] && export $(dbus-run-session) >& /dev/null
        else
                export $(dbus-run-session) >& /dev/null
        fi
fi

I borrowed this from this answer but replaced it with dbus-run-session to remove the X11 dependency. This is a nasty little hack and starts an additional dbus process rather than connecting to the existing one. You should be able force this via setting $DISPLAY and using pam as outlined in this blog post but I couldn't get it working.

Note that this must go in .bash_profile not .bashrc as if it's in .bashrc it will launch a process for every terminal not just the login terminal. This can lead to side-effects such as key presses only registering every second stroke.

Though I can still only get the keyring "" to work which does not persist between sessions. I can't get the default keyring to unlock on ubuntu while headless.