Error opening "pass" keyring: Specified keyring backend not availabe

Error opening “pass” keyring: Specified keyring backend not available
The token was not successfully saved to a system keyring. The token is:

Why this is issue and how to resolve this?

Okay this is supposed to happen as I had not configured any worker and the default workers are not pointing to the target.
So you can just go to your Boundary Admin UI and create a new worker following the instructions given there.

And you should be good to connect with the target

This reference gave me a little hint after struggling for couple of hours Target-Aware Workers | Boundary | HashiCorp Developer

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By default on *nix machines we attempt to use https://www.passwordstore.org/ – you’re seeing that message because it wasn’t found. If you want to suppress it you can set -keyring-type=none (or BOUNDARY_KEYRING_TYPE).