1# Linux Password Storage 2 3On Linux, Chromium can store passwords in three ways: 4 5* GNOME Keyring 6* KWallet 4 7* plain text 8 9Chromium chooses which store to use automatically, based on your desktop 10environment. 11 12Passwords stored in GNOME Keyring or KWallet are encrypted on disk, and access 13to them is controlled by dedicated daemon software. Passwords stored in plain 14text are not encrypted. Because of this, when either GNOME Keyring or KWallet is 15in use, any unencrypted passwords that have been stored previously are 16automatically moved into the encrypted store. 17 18Support for using GNOME Keyring and KWallet was added in version 6, but using 19these (when available) was not made the default mode until version 12. 20 21## Details 22 23Although Chromium chooses which store to use automatically, the store to use can 24also be specified with a command line argument: 25 26* `--password-store=gnome` (to use GNOME Keyring) 27* `--password-store=kwallet` (to use KWallet) 28* `--password-store=basic` (to use the plain text store) 29 30Note that Chromium will fall back to `basic` if a requested or autodetected 31store is not available. 32 33In versions 6-11, the store to use was not detected automatically, but detection 34could be requested with an additional argument: 35 36* `--password-store=detect` 37