for example `gnome-keyring` or KeepassXC ([setup guide](https://avaldes.co/2020/01/28/secret-service-keepassxc.html)).
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/)
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 Flatpak, 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.
If you prefer to use other software that only implements the Secret Service API while using the
nightly 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: