diff --git a/scripts/pysync b/scripts/pysync
index 12fa08beca..29c51b8e20 100755
--- a/scripts/pysync
+++ b/scripts/pysync
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 # It is intended to be a primary endpoint for all the people who want to
 # just setup test environment without going into details of python package management
 
+# on ubuntu 22.04 based `six` fails to install without this, because something imports keyring.
+# null keyring is fine, which means no secrets should be accessed.
+export PYTHON_KEYRING_BACKEND=keyring.backends.null.Keyring
+
 poetry config --list
 
 if [ -z "${CI}" ]; then