I am trying to move a configuration which works on my desktop system (running KDE) to a headless system. I know about running DBUS and gnome-keyring -- I am using Patrick's dbus-session.sh to do the heavy lifting. In fact, I can successfully sync between my Exchange account and a local filestore. So, I moved on to what I thought would be the easy part: syncing the local filestore with an Owncloud server (i.e. webdav). However, attempting to configure that is giving me an error message: syncevolution --configure --template none username=aaa password=bbb printChanges=1 loglevel=4 target-config@Owncloud [ERROR] sync password for target-config@owncloud: cannot store password in GNOME keyring, not enough attributes (user=grc). Try setting syncURL or remoteDeviceID if this is a sync password. The exact same configure command works fine on my desktop system (where I am using KDE keyring). Here is a slightly simplified list of the commands I am using... [The @FilesMaster context is already set up to provide access to the local filestore -- it has been used for the Exchange sync] syncevolution --configure --template none username= password= printChanges=1 loglevel=4 Owncloud@FilesMaster syncevolution --configure syncUrl=local://@Owncloud peerIsClient=1 loglevel=4 Owncloud@FilesMaster syncevolution --configure sync=two-way uri=contacts loglevel=4 Owncloud@FilesMaster contacts syncevolution --configure --template none username=aaa password=bbb printChanges=1 loglevel=4 target-config@Owncloud ^^^^This is the command generating the error. If that had worked I would have gone on to do: syncevolution --configure sync=two-way uri=contacts loglevel=4 target-config@Owncloud contacts syncevolution --configure --template none backend=carddav database=https://example.com/owncloud/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/aaa... @Owncloud contacts These all work on my KDE system. Any idea what I need to do to get GNOME keyring to store my password? By the way, leaving the password=bbb off the --configure command and adding it to the --sync command works. But I am trying to store the password in the keyring so it doesn't have to be included in the cron command line itself. Graham