summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/README
blob: 20bd46d1b2902ccc0e9d4d239a8dea44d46fce9b (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
gnome-keyring is a program that keep password and other secrets for
users. It is run as a daemon in the session, similar to ssh-agent, and
other applications locate it via an environment variable or a D-Bus.

The program can manage several keyrings, each with its own master
password, and there is also a session keyring which is never stored to
disk, but forgotten when the session ends.

The library libsecret is used by applications to integrate with the
GNOME keyring system.