Bug#531695: gnome-keyring: The login keyring doesn't appear to unlock to default keyring

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Aug 13 11:35:43 UTC 2009


Le mardi 04 août 2009 à 14:20 +0100, Bob Ham a écrit :
> It would appear that the login keyring is not unlocked upon login; the
> "Keyring Manager" in GNOME's Administration menu won't allow access.
> 
> While trying to unlock the password for the login keyring, using the
> same password as my account does not work.  Assuming that the login
> keyring must have the same password as my account for correct operation,
> this begs two questions:
> 
> 1. Why is the password for the login keyring different from my account
> password?

Probably because you changed your account password without changing the
password for the login keyring accordingly. Since 2.26.0-3 this is done
automatically.

> 2. How can I set the login keyring's password to be the same as my
> account?

You can change it manually from the keyring preferences in seahorse,
after which it should follow your account password now.

Cheers,
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling
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