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IntelliJ was failing to save my GitLab API token. Every time I tried to add or update my GitLab account in Settings, the operation would silently fail or timeout. The IntelliJ logs showed repeated warnings: WARN - #c.i.c.RemoteCredentialStore - Timeout while waiting for credentials Root Cause On Fedora (and other Linux distributions with GNOME), IntelliJ stores credentials in the system’s native keyring via the freedesktop.org Secret Service API. The GNOME Keyring was locked, preventing any credential storage. ...

If you’re running a homelab with multiple network segments, there’s a good chance you have at least one machine connected to more than one network. Maybe your workstation has a wired connection to your DMZ and wireless to your trusted WLAN. Convenient? Yes. A potential security hole? Also yes. The Problem My workstation sits on two networks: wireless connected to my home WLAN (192.168.3.0/24) and wired into my DMZ (192.168.4.0/24). The DMZ is intentionally isolated—it’s where I run services exposed to the internet. The WLAN is where everything else lives: personal devices, management interfaces, the stuff I actually care about protecting. ...