Disable keyring prompting

[mil-ad]

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When I open zeditor (on Arch linux) it prompts me to authenticate my system keyring. I don't want to give keyring access to my editor and pressing Escape gets rid of the password prompt. Is there a way to stop zeditor from requesting keyring access?

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[notpeter]

I believe we use the keyring for storing the following items:

• Zed.dev session (Logging into Zed for Collab and Zed AI)
• Assistant panel API Tokens (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, etc)

On MacOS, if you logout from Zed and remove and click Reset key for any configured providers in the Assistant you should no longer receive prompts to access your Keychain.

On Linux, things are a little different (see: read_credentials and write_credentials in linux/platform.rs). It's not immediately clear to me the behavior if you don't have any stored credentials in your Keyring (logged out; assistant unconfigured; previously saved items deleted) whether you will be prompted, but ideally you would not.

[constantitus]

It's not immediately clear to me the behavior if you don't have any stored credentials in your Keyring (logged out; assistant unconfigured; previously saved items deleted) whether you will be prompted, but ideally you would not.

I did get prompted the first time I opened the editor. Nothing has to be configured for you to get prompted.

[musjj]

I deleted ~/.config/zed and ~/.cache/zed and the issue still persists (0.154.1). Not sure what's triggering it. I looked over my gpg --list-keys and I'm only seeing my personal key and proton vpn key.

[notpeter]

@musjj Wrong keyring. This isn't in your GPG Keyring, it's in your XDG secrets provider (likely gnome-keyring or kwallet).

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