Auto-login with Plasma, SDDM and sd-encrypt

SDDM is the default desktop manager for Plasma. However, it has one major issue that has annoyed me for a while now. On my GNOME setup, if I type a password to decrypt my partition earlier on in the boot process through sd-encrypt, the password gets cached in the kernel keyring. This password is then passed onto GDM who then uses it to unlock my GNOME keyring and auto-logins into GNOME....

July 7, 2021 · 2 min · mufeedali