I am using GNOME 3 on NixOS 16.09, and I cannot figure out how to make the "Login" keyring unlock automatically on login.
I suspect this could be fixed with the security.pam.services
option, but I am not an expert, and the documentation is not very verbose or clear:
This option defines the PAM services. A service typically corresponds to a program that uses PAM, e.g. login or passwd. Each attribute of this set defines a PAM service, with the attribute name defining the name of the service.
Type: list or attribute set of submodules
Default:
[ ]
A related but less important issue is that if I create a new user account under NixOS and log in with GNOME, no keyring is automatically created. The first time I enter a password somewhere and accept to save it in a keyring, I get a dialogue asking for a password to create a new default keyring:
Choose password for new keyring
An application wants to create new keyring called 'Default keyring'. Choose the password you want to use for it.
Note that it wants to create a keyring called "Default keyring", and not "Login", like Ubuntu does.
If I type in my login password, the keyring is created, but on the next login it is not unlocked automatically, and I am asked for a password the first time I try to use it.
Here is an analogous question about KDE Wallet, which so far has no accepted answer.
There is a relevant issue reported for Nixpkgs.