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[Chris Roberts <575877@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am logging in with a password (i.e. not auto-login) and after about 10
seconds this keyring dialog pops up.  Wireless is already working by
this time, and continues to work even if you cancel the dialog.

I have tried in Passwords & Keys setting both default and login
passwords to the same, but this made no difference.

I can't help thinking that the only reason we don't have thousands of
people complaining about this, is that most people just blindly enter
the password and don't worry too much about it.

The popular workaround seems to be to remove the password altogether
from the keyring, and thus do away with security altogether. I
appreciate that we all think the bugs that affect us are a priority, but
I am surprised this only warrants a low priority tag, given the security
implications.

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Title:
  gnome-keyring mysteriously asks for keyring password on startup

Status in “gnome-keyring” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-keyring

  I recently (yesterday) upgraded from Karmic to Lucid. Now whenever I start up, gnome-keyring asks me for my keyring password. Note that I use a password to log in, and I also have a keyring password. So I am not using auto-login. What confuses me is that I cannot tell what application is trying to access the keyring. And when I am asked for my password, I am unable to switch to other applications, e.g. terminal, to perform any debugging.
  This behavior did not occur before the upgrade.
  As far as I know, I should not have to enter my keyring password until something actually has to use the keyring. And it should only unlock that portion of the keyring that it uses. But the dialog I get provides me with no information other than "an application wants to access the keyring".

  From apt-cache policy gnome-keyring:
  gnome-keyring:
    Installed: 2.92.92.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu3
    Candidate: 2.92.92.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu3
    Version table:
   *** 2.92.92.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu3 0
          500 http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  From lsb_release -rd:
  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
  Release:	10.04

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: gnome-keyring 2.92.92.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed May  5 12:10:00 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-keyring

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