I’m hoping somebody can help me out here, refresh my memory. Earlier this year, I was having an issue where whenever I opened a couple apps, they would prompt me for my password to launch. At the time, one was Firefox. It was something to do with the keyring. And I used nano to edit some configuration file for each of the two apps to change a line that fixed the issue. But I have no memory of what I changed, and my browser history is no help. Did I change something to trusted? Did I change some authentication requirement to basic? I honestly have no recollection. But if anybody has any idea what I’m trying to say, I would love some assistance.
Did you launch nano by CLI? Your command history could go back far enough that the command may still be in there. A quick
history | grep nanomight be helpful here.You might also need to check the command history for the superuser account depending on whether and how you might have used
sudoto access any privileged files. If you had a root shell open at the time, commands were likely logged to the history file in /root, so you may need to runsudo -sand open a root shell before running thehistory | grep nanocommand.sudoseems not to take shell primitives as an argument, so `sudo history probably won’t work.Good luck!
Oh man, i had no idea. Thank you, I’ll check that out!
Have you looked at seahorse? There might be some settings in there on your keyring.
You know what, that’s exactly what it was. The keyring wasn’t unlocking. Whatever i did last time was getting the apps individually to bypass the keyring or something, but fixing the keyring issue solved the problem and hopefully will prevent future problems. Thank you!!
