Error when using Git credential helper with gnome-keyring as Sudo

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Beside the use of sudo, note that in 2016, libgnome-keyring is specific to GNOME and is now deprecated (since January 2014, actually).

2022 option: git-credential-manager

Microsoft provides a cross-platform credential helper named GCM (Git Credential Manager), which you can install (no need to build it) and configure:

git-credential-manager-core configure

You will need Git 2.27+ to use it.

2016 option: git-credential-libsecret

Git 2.11+ (Q4 2016) included a new credential helper using libsecret.

See commit 87d1353 (09 Oct 2016) by Mantas Mikulėnas (grawity).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano — gitster — in commit bfe800c, 26 Oct 2016)

A new credential helper that talks via “libsecret” with implementations of XDG Secret Service API has been added to contrib/credential/.

it uses libsecret which can support other implementations of XDG Secret
Service API.

But in 2022, this is no longer needed. See above

As noted by mati865 in the comments:

It should be noted that some distros like Arch and Fedora provide helpers available as both binary and source.

  • Libsecret binary on Arch: /usr/lib/git-core/git-credential-libsecret, and
  • Libsecret binary on Fedora: /usr/libexec/git-core/git-credential-libsecret.

Note: As @rugk adds in the comments, for Fedora and Git v2.25.2-1 or higher, you need to install an extra package with that binary, because it has been split from the main git package:

dnf install git-credential-libsecret

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