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[Otto Kekäläinen <416825@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Running 12.04 with ubuntu-proposed enabled, all updates installed as of
2012-12-05. I ran the test case described in the bug report and there
was no error.

However, it seems that WLAN passwords are no longer stored in the Gnome
keyring, but in Network-Manager, thus the example wasn't that good, but
used the "change password" feature in Seahorse to look what the current
password was, thus can confirm that this issue is now fixed.

You can now mark this as fixed!

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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 Released
Status in “gnome-control-center” source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed
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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