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

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Aug 13 13:28:39 UTC 2009


Le jeudi 13 août 2009 à 13:09 +0100, Bob Ham a écrit :
> > 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.
> 
> I've changed my account password and changed it back again.  I still
> can't unlock the login keyring.

This is because you need to sync the passwords first. The PAM keyring
module needs the old password to be able to set the new one.

> > You can change it manually from the keyring preferences in seahorse,
> > after which it should follow your account password now.
> 
> The preferences dialog in seahorse (accessed through the
> Edit->Preferences menu option) doesn't contain any method of changing
> passwords.

Hmpf, looks like this was removed in 2.26, I don’t know why. It seems to
be fixed in 2.27, I’ll have a look.

Cheers,
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