User: @tolland
the gnome keyring has a pam component and a daemon component. The pam module is invoked during user sign in, and caches the password to later unlock the login.keyring once the user session has started. These days, its common to have finger print readers, or indeed other external modules to provide authentication, and these methods would not have access to the clear text password to later use to unlock the keyring. How does gnome-keyring deal with this situation?