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Message #00542
[Bug 416825] Re: gnome-keyring passwd should be changed on system password change
(I've rejected the upload to do a new one including some other changes
that were commited in the vcs as well)
** Description changed:
+ Impact:
+ Leads to have login and desktop passwords out of sync which triggers confusing password prompts for users (need to enter their old login password)
+
+ Test Case:
+ 1. Install a fresh Ubuntu
+ 2. Log in and connect to a password protected WLAN (and thus save a password in the Gnome keyring)
+ 3. Log in again and change the password of the user using System > User info > Change password
+ 4. Log in again. Now the Gnome keyring complains that it was unable to open. The computer is not connected to the protected WLAN and the user is asked both the Gnome keyring password and the WLAN password.
+
+ Regression potention:
+ Check that the keyring password is correctly updated
+
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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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416825
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 Released
Status in “gnome-control-center” source package in Precise:
In Progress
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
New
Bug description:
Impact:
Leads to have login and desktop passwords out of sync which triggers confusing password prompts for users (need to enter their old login password)
Test Case:
1. Install a fresh Ubuntu
2. Log in and connect to a password protected WLAN (and thus save a password in the Gnome keyring)
3. Log in again and change the password of the user using System > User info > Change password
4. Log in again. Now the Gnome keyring complains that it was unable to open. The computer is not connected to the protected WLAN and the user is asked both the Gnome keyring password and the WLAN password.
Regression potention:
Check that the keyring password is correctly updated
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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