How to use secrets manager?

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#1

I’ve recently returned to Sailfish OS and am trying to get back to development. Currently I’m trying to start using secrets manager but I can’t seem to get it working at all.

From what I found I need to add sailfishsecrets to PKGCONFIG but when I do that, I get this error:

Project ERROR: sailfishsecrets development package not found

Any help to get it working? Thanks.

#2

Well, the error message states that you don’t have the sailfishsecrets development package installed in your target.

What’s missing is BuildRequires: pkgconfig(sailfishsecrets) in your .spec file. Or, if you prefer yaml, - sailfishsecrets in the PkgConfigBR section of the .yaml file.

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#3

Thanks, that worked! Now I get this error when deploying to emulator:

Unable to connect to secrets daemon: QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound", "Failed to connect to socket /run/user/100000/sailfishsecretsd/p2pSocket: No such file or directory") 1 "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound"

Any idea how to run the daemon on the emulator?

#4

The same way you run it on a device :wink:

You should have Requires: sailfishsecretsdaemon on your spec file. That way, when you deploy your app on the emulator, it will pull the daemon in with it. If I remember correctly, there’s still the issue that the daemon doesn’t start immediately after installing it, so you might need to restart the emulator after installation.

#5

Thanks again! Is there any place where I can find documentation for this? I can’t find anything regarding this topic.

#6

I’m afraid there isn’t. Someone should write that documentation. We do have Secrets and Crypto | Sailfish OS Documentation though, so it’s just one PR away. Another possibility would be adding it to the API documentation, which is currently only published as part of the SDK.

#7

It seems to not want to work with me… Now I get this error:

No such encrypted storage plugin exists: org.sailfishos.secrets.plugin.encryptedstorage.sqlcipher

Is it just because of the emulator? I used Sailfish::Secrets::SecretManager::DefaultEncryptedStoragePluginName not the name directly.

#8

Try adding Requires: sailfishsecretsdaemon-secretsplugins-default in the spec.

We really shoud write the documentation for this stuff :frowning:

#9

Sadly the same error :confused:

#10

@vige Do you have any other ideas what could help?

#11

Not really. It would help if you could share the source code of your project so I could try it myself.