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grypydd

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Thursday, May 12th 2005, 6:27pm

Howto disable kwallet

I've googled 'disable kwallet', I've read kde and konqueror FAQs, browsed the Konqueror user's manual and searched on these and other linux forums but I can't figure out how to disable kwallet.

It was offered when I tried sftp on konqueror the first time and I set up a password, but now it slows things down since I must enter the kwallet pw and then the site username and pw. I would dearly like to stop using it.

Any suggestions are welcome.

aaronforjesus

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Tuesday, March 14th 2006, 9:20pm

RE: Howto disable kwallet

In Control Center, Security & Privacy, KDE Wallet, de-select the Enable the KDE wallet subsystem to turn it off.

catworld

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Monday, November 26th 2007, 8:14pm

RE: Howto disable kwallet

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Originally posted by aaronforjesus
In Control Center, Security & Privacy, KDE Wallet, de-select the Enable the KDE wallet subsystem to turn it off.


I have been googling this, searched this forum and have poked around all over the system. I cannot get kwallet to shut off. I shut it down, kill it with ksysguard, delete the files in the .kde folder, uncheck the box mentioned above and reboot...

Kwallet keeps coming back like a virus.

I uninstalled it altogether and reebooted, and the pop-up persisted. I had to whack the kmail installation and start over from scratch.

Kwallet needs a clear and functional "shut up and get out of my way" button.
root@brain# cat -A world | grep "42"

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Thursday, May 12th 2011, 7:46am

I know it's an old post, but since it was the first to pop up on Google i'm inclined to post a follow up since i definatly could relate to catworld's post and remark:

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Kwallet keeps coming back like a virus.


This is still a problem in KDE 4.6.3 , the solution to:

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In Control Center, Security & Privacy, KDE Wallet, de-select the Enable the KDE wallet subsystem to turn it off.


Simply does not work. It still pops up evey page i visit which has a login field. It's very very very annoying... And as it seemsg
a bug already present in 2007, and still there half way in 2011....

I want kwallet gone from my system, i haven't used it, i'm not using it, and i'm never going to use it. I want it gone from my system. How do i do that?

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Thursday, May 12th 2011, 6:43pm

I haven't had any problem with it in a long while, myself. You could try rendering the executable harmless. You can't just delete the /usr/bin/kwalletd executable, the system will go nuts whenever there's a call for it. But most Linux distros have some device for neutralizing a binary, very much for this kind of thing.

You could search for how your distro does this, one method I've seen would have you aliasing the kwalletd executable to an empty "executable" like /bin/true, /bin/null or whatever they call the empty one. (Mandriva uses /bin/true) You could also try linking the two.

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mv /bin/kwalletd /bin/kwalletd.mv
ln -s /bin/true /bin/kwalletd


BTW this has really only gotten worse. There's still no way I can get it to not run. The best I've come up with is let it start the configuration the first time it's called (after a clean install) and on the second page there's a check box for "yes, I want kwallet to manage blah blah..." Just leave that blank and click next, it won't complain any more. But there will be a running daemon.

What distribution are you using?
root@brain# cat -A world | grep "42"

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Sunday, June 12th 2011, 4:09am

RE: RE: Howto disable kwallet

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Kwallet keeps coming back like a virus.

Kwallet needs a clear and functional "shut up and get out of my way" button.


Seriously... I'm a new convert from Gnome and this is enough to make me want to ditch KDE - it took me 3 days to figure out why my wireless wouldn't "just work" when I logged in... I'm entering a password at the drop of a hat. Gnome has a function like this, the gnome-keyring... you leave the password BLANK and it shuts up and gets out of your way. You would figure with all the configuration options in KDE that you would have an option to just disable this...

Thanks to catworld for posting a most heinous hack to what should be an easily accessible option...