Disable gnome-keyring on the Ubuntu Budgie live CD

Asked by fossfreedom

Ubuntu Budgie uses chromium-browser as its default browser.

We have this bug with regards to chromium-browser and the live-cd

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntubudgie/+bug/1672862

Is it possible to disable chromium-browser gnome-keyring prompt on the live-cd? If so, please can someone give guidance on how we could achieve this.

cheers in advance

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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You can use the ISO for the Budgie based Ubuntu and modify the files as you wish. You can even update the packages. Once you have made the OS as you like, you will then repackage it back into an ISO.

It's how all the other Ubuntu based distributions are made.

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fossfreedom (fossfreedom) said :
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Hi Andrew,

  can you expand please - modify what files? how?

thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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fossfreedom (fossfreedom) said :
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Andrew - I'm the project lead for Ubuntu Budgie - I'm not interested in repackaging our ISO. What I am after is how to disable chrome-browser via gnome-keyring prompting for a password on our live CD.

Obviously gnome-keyring cannot be disabled once the distro is installed.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
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http://askubuntu.com/questions/31786/chrome-asks-for-password-to-unlock-keyring-on-startup#comment572789_31786 seems to be a feasible solution.

In a live session after changing the related values in /usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop
from
Exec=chromium-browser %U
into
Exec=chromium-browser --password-store=basic %U
there is no prompt for a keyring password any more.
(A similar change probably has to be done for the pother two Exec= values for incognito and temp profile as well).

I do not know where on the installation disk this file resides and if it is easy to apply this change, such that a "Try Ubuntu" session inherits that changed desktop file.

(Another option could be to provide the live system user with a keyring file that has no password, and setting the flag - wherever that is - that the user is aware that a keyring without password is insecure.)

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fossfreedom (fossfreedom) said :
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Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.