I never really paid attention to KDE Wallet, since it was (or wasn’t) operating in the background since I installed TW.
However, after a recent reboot, everything went wrong: I now get prompted for various passwords like 30 times a day (especially KMail IMAP and SMTP passwords for my three email accounts) and network passwords (everytime I log in and / or change network)…
It is extremly annoying…!
I tried activating KDE Wallet (again maybe? Idk if it was active before), and did my best to have it running silently in the background.
But, it seems apps don’t use it even like this…
I honnestly hate to type passwords (I even set up facial recognition with howdy), and this is driving me mad. The pop-ups are completely random so far as I can tell, I’m doing my buisness and constantly get interupted by some “Enter the password for imap.someserver.com” (or SMTP, or Wi-Fi…)
Does anyone know how to get my old system back ? I’m ready to rollback using snapshots if it’s what it takes…
Unfortunately, I don’t have an answer, but only an opinion. I wouldn’t use an operating-specific password manager, simply because of that … an OS, or should I state, “device independent” manager, is the better way to go (well, for me that is).
It’s hard to know what went wrong, because you have given very little information.
You can try:
(1) logout
(2) Use CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a command line, and login there
(3) rm .config/kwalletrc
(4) rm -rf .local/share/kwalletd
When you next login to KDE, your KDE wallet will be recreated giving you a fresh start with it. You will have lost the contents, but they will soon build up again.
Please take note of the ArchWiki article explaining the KDE KWallet – especially the point about automatically opening the Wallet on login – <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE_Wallet>
Yes, yes, I know, KWallet likes to default to a GPG encryption – despite the fact that, Blowfish shall be used for the initial Wallet named “kdewallet” (which can be automatically opened at login) – which is a point where the KDE documentation isn’t clear – <https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kwalletmanager/kwallet5/index.html>
A point which will probably discussed in the near future in the KDE Forum before, a documentation Change Request is raised in their Bug Reporting system …
Another issue is, there’s very little discussion about exporting the Wallet’s contents as a backup – either encrypted or, in plain XML …
To work around the security issues, what you need to do is, to move the exported Wallet’s contents to a removable device which is only ever used if the active Wallet breaks and has to be restored – if the physical device is not being used, it’s locked away in a safe …
But, that’s something which you should be doing, regardless of which Wallet system you’re using …