Comment 28 for bug 686690

Great, the one LOC we still can't regression-test has a bug. Fortunately it's just a missing import.

This is easy to fix, but there's another problem. I don't think it's bad enough to scratch the whole project, and it might be considered a relatively minor bug in keyring. Let's talk it out.

Right now I can't run a launchpadlib script over an SSH session. I get this error when keyring tries to access the GNOME keyring on the foreign computer:

  File "/home/leonardr/canonical/lp-sourcedeps/eggs/keyring-0.5-py2.6.egg/keyring/backend.py", line 139, in get_password
    items = gnomekeyring.find_network_password_sync(username, service)
gnomekeyring.IOError

That makes sense--no reason why I should be able to SSH into another machine and dump the keyring--but it prevents Launchpad.login_with() from working at all.

I would like to be able to tell keyring to fall back to an encrypted file instead of crashing in this situation. But I don't know if this is the right thing to do in general.