Ubuntu
gnome-keyring package

  1. Bug #932177
  2. Comment #54

Comment 54 for bug 932177

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Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge) wrote :

This is actually a security bug for users of Chrome / Chromium. Chrome will store passwords in cleartext if gnome-keyring isn't functional. This is mentioned in the upstream Chrome disk encryption bug
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25404

$ cp ~/.config/chromium/Default/Login\ Data x.db
$ sqlite3 x.db
sqlite> SELECT username_value, password_value FROM logins;
billg|passw0rd
sqlite>