Support secretservice in headless environments

[SzKPeter]

Feature description

It would be nice if secretservice would work out of the box on both desktop and headless linux environments (Debian/Ubuntu). I've seen some forums where they mention that libsecret secret-tool can work without X11. I'm not sure if this is a lot of effort to add, or it's just some configuration issue on the linux environment.

Source for the forum: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsecret/-/issues/27

[bgavrilMS]

I'm not a Linux expert by far, but I tried to get DBUS to work on an Ubuntu box without X11 for 1-2 days and couldn't. Maybe there's a way, but there's not an easy way.

[SzKPeter]

I would try to debug this issue, but I cannot start the debugging environment in VSCode. Could anyone provide more info in the development.md how to start debugging the GCM Core code in VS Code under WSL?

• I have windows 10 pro 2004

• I have WSL 2 with ubuntu 20.04 server.

• I have forked the repo and cloned in a folder on Ubuntu 20.04 server

• I have 1.62.3 VS Code with plugins (remote development and c#)

• I have dotnet sdk 5.0.404 on the Ubuntu 20.04 server

• I have git version 2.34.1 on the Ubuntu

• I have set the git config to : git config --global credential.credentialStore secretservice

• I could build the solution with "dotnet build" , but "dotnet build -c LinuxDebug" does not work - Error is : /home/ubuntu/development/gcmcore/git-credential-manager/src/linux/Packaging.Linux/Packaging.Linux.csproj(23,5): error MSB3073: The command "/home/ubuntu/development/gcmcore/git-credential-manager/src/linux/Packaging.Linux/build.sh --configuration='Debug' --version='2.0.638.34290'" exited with code 1.

• I can open from VSCode command palatte a Remote-WSL : New WSL Window and open the cloned gcm core repo

• I can start debugging (Git Credential Manager (store) or (get) from VS Code debug menu

But I dont know how to interact with GCM running in my VS codes debugging mode. I try to interact with GCM via git credential fill the following way:

• I send the command in another terminal in the Ubuntu 20.04 server: git credential fill
• I write the following protocol=https host=github.com (I press enter here) (I press enter here again) It asks for username and pw .Seems like no interaction happens to GCM.

Can anyone show me what I miss here? I would like interact with GCM with a simple git cmd that the breakpoint would be hit at "src/shared/Core/Interop/Linux/SecretServiceCollection.cs"

Update: I got the debugging working from VSCode. Right now I'm trying with the manual relaunch of the DBUS, so that libsecret won't throw an exception.

[vtbassmatt]

I don't know that the core maintainers group has the expertise to properly address this one. Community help would be most welcomed, though!

[ldennington]

Closing in favor of tracking this work as part of the wider effort to enhance credstore defaults on Linux.