10-10-2012
First off, what are you doing with this information? It seems odd, because the answer to "how to store passwords" is, usually, "don't". To make a login system, you don't store the passwords, you store hashes made from them instead, so anyone stealing them can't turn them back into passwords.
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gnome-keyring-daemon
gnome-keyring-daemon(1) User Commands gnome-keyring-daemon(1)
NAME
gnome-keyring-daemon - a daemon that stores passwords and other sensitive data
SYNOPSIS
gnome-keyring-daemon [--forground] [--daemonize] [--login] [--components=components] [--help]
DESCRIPTION
gnome-keyring-daemon is a daemon which runs in the user session, similar to ssh-agent. Other applications can use it to store passwords
and other sensitive information.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-f, --foreground
Run in the foreground
-d, --daemonize
Run as a daemon
-l, --login
Use login password from stdin
-c, --components=components
Specify the components to run. Can have values of "ssh", "keyring", and/or "pkcs11", separated by commas.
-?, --help
Show help options
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
1 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon Executable script for the daemon
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-libs |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
libgnome-keyring(3), attributes(5)
Written by Jeff Cai, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.
SunOS 5.11 31 Jul 2008 gnome-keyring-daemon(1)