[juneau-lug] Re: Keyring lockup

  • From: James Zuelow <James_Zuelow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:54:14 -0800

 

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> [mailto:juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Hurlock
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 1:17 AM
> To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: Keyring lockup
> 

> But, I want to get rid of the suddenly appearing keyring 
> requests altogether.   I do have the "Pam module for 
> unlocking keyrings" installed according to the
>  Add/Remove Software program.  But again, I don't know how to 
> access it to use it.  Interestingly, the description of pam 
> says:  "The gnome-keyring-pam package contains a pam module 
> that can automatically unlock the "login" keyring when the 
> user logs in."
> 
OOOOH.  Gotcha.  Libpam-gnome-keyring. So this is why you were never prompted 
for a password before -- PAM was unlocking your wallet for you.

Google says that when you changed your password, you did not open a terminal 
and type passwd like libpam-gnome-keyring expected.  You did it via the GUI, 
which somehow changes the password but does not notify libpam-gnome-keyring.  
Oops.  However, I take this with a grain of salt since the discussion which 
describes this problem is from 2009, so if you are seeing this issue it is a 
longstanding bug in Gnome.

> I am confused that the original root password has anything to 
> do with this, unless I am doubly confused and root and login 
> were both set in caps and I changed both.  But that is not as 
> I recall it.  I believe the caps that works now on keyring 
> was the root password only.
> 

Try this:

Open a command prompt, and type

  passwd

Enter your current password, and when it prompts for a new password, enter your 
current password again (twice).

So you are changing your password to the same password you're using now!

Then log off, and log back on again.

Did it work?

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