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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Committed

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Title:
  gnome-keyring passwd should be changed on system password change

Status in GNOME Control Center:
  Fix Released
Status in GNOME keyring services:
  Invalid
Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “gnome-control-center” source package in Precise:
  Triaged
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  New

Bug description:
  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).

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