Credential store is not supported

[ryan-carpenter]

JabRef version

5.13 (latest release)

Operating system

GNU / Linux

Details on version and operating system

openSUSE Tumbleweed, KDE Plasma Wayland

Checked with the latest development build (copy version output from About dialog)

• I made a backup of my libraries before testing the latest development version.
• I have tested the latest development version and the problem persists

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

1. File > Preferences > Web search > Custom API key table
2. Custom API key shows "No content in table" and no means of adding or enabling a key. I believe that I previously had a custom key saved prior to JabRef version 5.13.
3. Event log shows "Credential store is not supported"
4. Start JabRef from the terminal for more info (see warnings in the appendix)

Appendix

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Log File

2024-05-15 23:51:31 [JavaFX Application Thread] org.jabref.preferences.JabRefPreferences.getFetcherKeysFromKeyring()
WARN: JabRef could not open the key store
2024-05-15 23:52:18 [JavaFX Application Thread] org.jabref.logic.util.OS.isKeyringAvailable()
WARN: Credential store not supported.

[koppor]

openSUSE Tumbleweed, KDE Plasma Wayland

Is there any special procedure to install that setup - or does one "just" need to install openSUSE Tumbleweed?

Do you have an app for keyring security installed? e..g Something like Kwallet?

[koppor]

Implementation "trace":

• https://github.com/purejava/kdewallet is the app
• We use java-keyring
• java-keyring uses secret service. Does that communicate using kdewallet?

Possible follow ups:

• If kdewallet is not supported, add support to java-keyring
• If kdewallet is supported, ask @ryan-carpenter about the specifics of the setup.

[Siedlerchr]

Gnome-keyring would be an alternative

[koppor]

Interesting development tooling: https://github.com/purplesyringa/docker-boot

[Siedlerchr]

@ryan-carpenter Did you have luck with installing gnome-keyring? It is enough to just install the gnome keyring manager. @calixtus said that he needed this for Skype as well

[ryan-carpenter]

openSUSE Tumbleweed, KDE Plasma Wayland

Is there any special procedure to install that setup - or does one "just" need to install openSUSE Tumbleweed?

Do you have an app for keyring security installed? e..g Something like Kwallet?

KDE Plasma includes Kwallet by default.

[ryan-carpenter]

* java-keyring uses [secret service](https://github.com/swiesend/secret-service). Does that communicate using kdewallet?

Yes, I believe so. Here is a screenshot of the system settings for Kwallet on my system.

* If kdewallet is supported, ask @ryan-carpenter about the specifics of the setup.

I don't have much experience with KWallet, so it is possible that I need to do something to configure it properly.

• JabRef is not currently listed as connected or authorized to access the wallet, and it is not obvious how to manually connect/authorize an application or if this is possible.
• I have only one wallet in the wallet manager, so having the wrong wallet open is not the problem.
• I enabled the option to prompt when an application accesses a wallet in case this might help discover the underlying issue.

I don't enough about how this works to troubleshoot effectively, but I am open to suggestions.

I have updated JabRef since I first created the issue.

JabRef 5.14--2024-05-14--6376067
Linux 6.9.3-1-default amd64
Java 21.0.2
JavaFX 22.0.1+7

[ryan-carpenter]

@ryan-carpenter Did you have luck with installing gnome-keyring?

I have not tried this yet, but based on your comments and the message in system settings for Kwallet, it looks as if gnome-keyring or keepassxc should work. However, the setting in KWallet is global, not per-application, so I might have to switch entirely to one of the alternatives, which is not ideal. On the other hand, maybe all I need to to is re-enter or reset the password as described here

[ryan-carpenter]

I am working on the assumption that this is a kwallet configuration issue.

Secret service is supposed to be supported, but dbus initial API had some challenges including not working with flatpak apps (resolved). Arch Wiki shows configuration options that might help.

• Launching JabRef with --password-store=kwallet5 or --password-store=kwalletmanager5rc did not work for me.
• My configuration in ~/.config/kwalletrc includes

[org.freedesktop.secrets]
apiEnabled=true

I am using openSUSE, which tends to have some differences in configuration and directory structure compared to other distributions, so it would be nice to know if anyone else is using JabRef successfully with Kwallet.

I will let you know if I manage to get it working. @koppor, do you want me to close the issue or leave it open while I investigate?