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Linux Secret Service keyring backend

Source: R/backend-secret-service.R
backend_secret_service.Rd

This backend is the default on Linux. It uses the libsecret library, and needs a secret service daemon running (e.g. Gnome Keyring, or KWallet). It uses DBUS to communicate with the secret service daemon.

Details

This backend supports multiple keyrings.

See backend for the documentation of the individual methods. The is_available() method checks is a Secret Service daemon is running on the system, by trying to connect to it. It returns a logical scalar, or throws an error, depending on its argument:

is_available = function(report_error = FALSE)

Argument:

  • report_error Whether to throw an error if the Secret Service is not available.

See also

Other keyring backends: backend_env, backend_file, backend_macos, backend_wincred

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## This only works on Linux, typically desktop Linux
kb <- backend_secret_service$new()
kb$keyring_create("foobar")
kb$set_default_keyring("foobar")
kb$set_with_value("service", password = "secret")
kb$get("service")
kb$delete("service")
kb$delete_keyring("foobar")
}