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[Bug 416825] [NEW] gnome-keyring passwd should be changed on system password change

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From: Launchpad Bug Tracker <416825@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:15:23 -0000
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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Bolesław Tokarski (boleslaw-tokarski):

Better description and fresh follow-up in report
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/gnome-control-
center/+bug/911426

Original description:

The default Gnome keyring manger in Ubuntu 9.04 (Seahorse 26.6.1?) asks
the user to unlock his/her keyring in order to save the Ubuntu One token
_if_ the user has changed his/her password after initial
installation/login of Ubuntu 9.04.

The actual problem seems to be that the default password for the keyring
is initially and automatically set to the same password the user uses to
log in into Ubuntu (GDM). The user does not know anything about the
keyring, because it works automatically (and that's fine). However if
the user ever changes his/her password for Ubuntu (Linux username) the
password protecting the keyring is not changed. So later if the user
needs to unlock the keyring, he/she needs to rembember what was his/her
password when he/she started using Ubuntu in the beginning.

The solution would be to set some kind of flag in the Gnome keyring (Sea
Horse?) that the password has been taken automatically from the
username/login. So if ever the user does change his username/login
password, the Gnome keyring would know to automatically also change the
password that protects the keyring.

This bug does not effect new users of Ubuntu, but most likely everybody
who has been using Ubuntu for a longer time (and thus has changed their
login password at some time, which brakes the keyring automatics).

** Affects: gnome-control-center
     Importance: Medium
         Status: New

** Affects: gnome-keyring
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Invalid

** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Precise)
     Importance: High
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: baltix
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: jaunty karmic lucid
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gnome-keyring passwd should be changed on system password change
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416825
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