Fractal doesn’t store your **password**, but it stores your **access token** and the **passphrase**
used to encrypt the database and the local cache.
The stable Flatpak available on Flathub and any version that is not sandboxed rely on software that
implements the [Secret Service API](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec/)
The Fractal Flatpaks use the [Secret **Portal**](https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/portal-api-reference.html#gdbus-org.freedesktop.portal.Secret)
to store those secrets. If you are using GNOME this should just work. If you are using a different
desktop environment or are facing issues, make sure `xdg-desktop-portal` is installed along with a
service that provides the [Secret portal backend interface](https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/portal-api-reference.html#gdbus-org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Secret),
which is currently only implemented by gnome-keyring.
Any version that is not sandboxed relies on software that implements the [Secret **Service** API](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec/)
to store those secrets. Therefore, you need to have software providing that service on your system,
like gnome-keyring, KeepassXC ([setup guide](https://avaldes.co/2020/01/28/secret-service-keepassxc.html)),
or a recent version of KWallet. If you are using GNOME this should just work.
With the nightly and beta Flatpaks, Fractal uses the [Secret portal](https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/portal-api-reference.html#gdbus-org.freedesktop.portal.Secret)
to store those secrets. Once again, if you are using GNOME this should just work. If you are using a
different desktop environment or are facing issues, make sure `xdg-desktop-portal` is installed
along with a service that provides the [Secret portal backend interface](https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/portal-api-reference.html#gdbus-org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Secret),
which is currently only implemented by gnome-keyring.
or a recent version of KWallet. Once again, if you are using GNOME this should just work.
If you prefer to use other software that only implements the Secret Service API while using the
nightly or beta Flatpak, you need to make sure that no service implementing the Secret portal
backend interface is running, and you need to allow Fractal to access the D-Bus service with this
command:
If you prefer to use software that only implements the Secret Service API while using the Flatpaks,
you need to make sure that no service implementing the Secret portal backend interface is running,
and you need to allow Fractal to access the D-Bus service with this command:
Kévin Commaille
2 years ago