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Question: Possible running secret-service in WSL2

ryan-dyer opened this issue · 4 comments

ryan-dyer commented

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    Attempting to get gnome-keyring working in WSL2.
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    Distributor ID: Ubuntu
    Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
    Release: 18.04
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    I have installed dbus, libsecret-1.0, libsecret-tools, and gnome-keyring.
    Specifically I am trying:

 secret-tool store --label=test key value
Password:
** Message: 12:19:21.107: Remote error from secret service: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface 'org.freedesktop.Secret.Collection' on object at path /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login
secret-tool: No such interface 'org.freedesktop.Secret.Collection' on object at path /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login

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therealkenc commented

The usual dbus session goodness that is normally in place with a common Ubuntu graphical install with xdm/gdm/lightdm (or similar) isn't in place with a (typical) WSL setup. You've also have no systemd-logind alive.

Your question is basically this reddit.

I made an effort to prove that answer wrong (it is) but too lazy on a Canada Day to take it to completion. Including as far as I got here for posterity so I don't lose it. Maybe someone highly motivated will iterate.

Other way to go is get systemd running (ref #994) and fire up xrdp. After logging into the session, you'll almost certainly get a nice pretty credentials popup out of secret-tool, because gnome-keyring-daemon will be living in its happy place.

Calling defeat for the day on a CLI solution tho. Bonne chance.

oryandunn commented

@therealkenc thanks for taking a shot at this. I tried following along with your solution, but ran into one issue after another, and I don't have the knowledge base to make it further than you did.

My frustrations follow.. I'm not sure why we need all that just to store a password securely. For now, I think my script will just have to prompt each time for the password. It was curious to me why plain text netrc files were a thing, and they unfortunately make some sense given the state of things...

From all the research I've done, this seems to be an issue with using secret-tool on any headless Linux system (but I could be wrong). If that's the case, it's quite shocking that a command line only solution for something as basic as credential storage doesn't exist. I also tried using the python3 keyring module, but that had it's own issues, and I suspect it'd ultimately boil down to the same errors that secret-tool runs into, since the python keyring uses the same secret service api.

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therealkenc commented

this seems to be an issue with using secret-tool on any headless Linux system (but I could be wrong)

Ref this (although it is pretty stale circa 2015). It would take a drill-down into libsecret to figure out what it would take.

therealkenc commented

Calling defeat for the day on a CLI solution tho. Bonne chance.

The OP scenario works out of the box with WSLg. It would be a pretty deep rabbit hole to get a text-based (tty) keyring password prompt set up. I am sure it can be done; people probably do it with cloud scenarios. Punt getting that much working on WSL to discussion as it is a userspace thing. There wasn't a WSL actionable on this one, notwithstanding feature-request GUI solution gnome-keyring. If you fire up Firefox (or similar) you get the same sort of keyring prompt.

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