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# secretsd
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This is a generic backend for the libsecret API, used by various programs to store passwords and similar secrets. It mostly implements the [Secret Service API][api] specification, to act as an alternative to gnome-keyring-daemon and kwalletd.
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[api]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/secret-service/latest/
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## Dependencies
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* python-cryptography
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* python-dbus
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* python-gobject (3.x)
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* python-xdg
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## Installation
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secretsd is a user-level daemon which uses your D-Bus "session bus". It could be manually started through `systemd --user`:
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cp systemd/secretsd.service ~/.config/systemd/user/
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systemctl --user start secretsd
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or automatically started on demand through D-Bus activation:
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cp systemd/secretsd.service ~/.config/systemd/user/
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cp dbus/org.freedesktop.secrets.service ~/.local/share/dbus-1/services/
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## Security
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Secretsd does not aim to provide complete security like a modern password manager would; it only aims to allow using the libsecret API instead of ad-hoc loading of plaintext passwords from `~/.netrc` or similar files, but still relies on external protection for those files. In particular, item titles and attributes are **not** encrypted.
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For now, all secrets are encrypted using a single "database key", which is stored in a regular file by default but can be provided through an environment variable, KWallet, or read from an external program. To specify the key source:
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secretsd -k file:${CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY}/secrets.key
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secretsd -k env:DATABASE_KEY
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secretsd -k kwallet:
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secretsd -k exec:"pass Apps/secretsd"
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(As secretsd is supposed to be a background service, it is strongly advised to _not_ use an external program which would show interactive prompts. And in particular avoid those which use GnuPG pinentry or otherwise make use of libsecret, for hopefuly obvious reasons.)
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Individually encrypted collections are not yet supported, but planned in the future. (This will most likely be a fully separate layer of encryption, in addition to the database key.)
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