Comment # 7 on bug 1209741 from Fabian Vogt

Reassigning to systemd.

(In reply to Joe S from comment #6)
> I don't know if you caught this from my bug report but this all used to work
> and sometime roughly 9 months or so ago it was broken.

Most likely that Plasma enabled systemdBoot by default. Previously it did not
make use of systemd user services that much.

> From your second link it says:
> 
>     IIRC the usual advice by Lennart is to use the user-wide @u keyring
> instead
>     of session keyrings. (Programs searching in @s should automatically find
>     credentials added to @u, as pam_keyinit creates the link by default.)
> 
>    A few years ago I have asked one affected kernel subsystem (cifs) to allow
>    using @u. They had no interest in doing so. I have since then decided to
>    just give up on being able to use cifs -o multiuser. (See also: GitHub
>    issue regarding AFS PAGs.)
> 
> It seems to me like, if cifs used @u and pam_keyinit_so and pam_cifscreds
> all used @u then all of these problems would go away.

pam_keyinit's purpose is specifically to add a session keyring. So that needs
to be fixed in any case. Whether cifscreds should use @u, @s or @us is another
topic.