Rancher Desktop Ubuntu .deb package depends on

pass

. Having

pass

installed completely changes the way

docker login

works. It stops all of the (admittedly fairly insecure) auths from

.docker/config.json

from working. To use

docker login

, and any interaction with registries which relies on

docker login

,

pass

insists that the user uses

gpg

to create a key and reenters their

docker login

credentials. This change was sprung upon me just by installing Rancher Desktop. For me, this stopped me from working for a while, which delayed a deployment, whilst I looked up all the manuals I needed to learn this new approach. Maybe

pass

could be suggested by Rancher Desktop instead of be depended upon by Rancher Desktop?

Sorry about that. We need to configure "some" credential helper on the host; otherwise the credential forwarder for

nerdctl

has nothing to talk to. We will ship a

none

helper with the next release, that will store credentials in a text file instead: Build a standalone docker-credential-none. by ericpromislow · Pull Request #2372 · rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop

I guess the _depend_ency for

pass

was added between 1.3 and 1.4 - on this desktop I only upgraded to 1.4 in the last week or two. But I'll have used it (with docker (moby)) back end for those weeks and did not notice am issue with RD - so I guess RD worked okay with

pass

installed but obviously not working, due to

gpg

not having any keys. Anyway - just mentioning it. The need for

pass

and

gpg

to be configured and working was not something I'd seen mentioned here on Slack, so I thought I'd mention it. Maybe I'm unusual in using RD on Linux, or maybe I'm unusual in not having a GPG identity... 🤷