Welcome to SecretStorage documentation!

This module provides a way for securely storing passwords and other secrets.

It uses D-Bus-based FreeDesktop.org Secret Service standard that is, for example, supported by GNOME Keyring (since version 2.30) and by KSecretsService.

It allows one to create new secret items, delete and search for passwords matching given attributes. It also supports graphical prompts when unlocking is needed.

SecretStorage code is hosted on GitHub.

Initializing D-Bus

See also

If you don’t know how D-Bus works, please read Introduction to D-Bus firstly.

Before using SecretStorage, you need to initialize D-Bus. This can be done using this function:

Examples of using SecretStorage

Creating a new item in the default collection:

>>> import secretstorage
>>> bus = secretstorage.dbus_init()
>>> collection = secretstorage.get_default_collection(bus)
>>> attributes = {'application': 'myapp', 'another attribute':
...     'another value'}
>>> item = collection.create_item('My first item', attributes,
...     b'pa$$word')

Getting item’s label, attributes and secret:

>>> item.get_label()
'My first item'
>>> item.get_attributes()
{'another attribute': 'another value', 'application': 'myapp'}
>>> item.get_secret()
b'pa$$word'

Locking and unlocking collections:

>>> collection.lock()
>>> collection.is_locked()
True
>>> collection.unlock()
>>> collection.is_locked()
False

Asynchronously unlocking the collection (the GLib main loop is used here, Qt loop is also supported):

>>> from gi.repository import GLib
>>> loop = GLib.MainLoop()
>>> def callback(dismissed, unlocked):
...     print('dismissed:', dismissed)
...     print('unlocked:', unlocked)
...     loop.quit()
...
>>> collection.unlock(callback); loop.run()
dismissed: False
unlocked: [dbus.ObjectPath('/org/freedesktop/secrets/aliases/default')]

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