Is there a potential conflict between ksshaskpass and keepassxc and can wallet manager be removed?

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I have never had much success with ksshaskpass and Wallet Manager and have been looking at keepassxc to manage my passwords.
Before I rush in please could somebody who knows about these things advise if I can make the change to keepassxc and what should I do to remove existing Wallet and passwords.

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I don’t know about removing wallet manager. But if you just want to remove existing wallet and passwords, those are in “$HOME/.local/share/kwalletd”. You can just remove all files from there.

You will probably be prompted again to setup “kwallet”. You can give it a blank password.

Personally, I was never bothered by “kwallet”. I set it to stay open, so I was only prompted once per login session. But now, with Leap 15.0, I have “pam_kwallet” installed and I am never prompted (wallet is unlocked with login password as part of the login procedure).

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Hi and thanks for the reply. I did as you suggested by deleting the files from “$HOME/.local/share/kwalletd,” installed keepassxc and created new database with new password. So far no problems.
Then thought I would try and run LuckyBackup which I know needs a password. Problem is that LuckyBackup uses KWallet and so starts with the message:-

  Pass a valid window to KWallet::Wallet::openWallet().

I suspect this may be off topic but am I stuck with the use of KWallet in LuckyBackup?

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if you set kwallet to empty password it stops asking. for it

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Hi all and done. Many thanks. Does not address my LuckyBackup issue but will get back to that later.
Thanks again.
Budgie2

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My understanding is that ksshaspass works with kwallet and thus needs kwallet running. from the ksshaspass github page

Ksshaskpass is a front-end for ssh-add which stores the password of the
sh key in KWallet.
Ksshaskpass is not meant to be executed directly, you need to tell
ssh-add about it. ssh-add will then call it if it is not associated
to a terminal.