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How to change the default keyring password in Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04

Posted August 24th, 2009 by Liam Green-Hughes
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If you change your login password you might find that you get prompted for your "default keyring" password, this can be annoying, and sadly it isn't obvious how to change this to be the same as your new login password (or another password if you are being ultra secure!). Even searching the web can take a while to find a solution, but fortunately it was out there courtesy of a commenter named "David" in this post:

The default keyring prompt

  • Go to Accessories -> Password and Encryption Keys
  • Click on the Passwords tab
  • Right click over Passwords: login
  • Select Change Password

If you change your password to the same as your login password you won't get prompted for your default keyring password when you log in.

The change password option

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Ubuntu Keyring vs login password
from Mike's Blawg on Wed, 04/11/2009 - 6:04pm

At work I have a netbook running Ubuntu Netbook 9.04. At one point I changed my login password, and then wanted to set up our test WPA2 network on it. It prompted me for my keyring password, which was very...

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Re: How to change the default keyring password in Ubuntu ...

On January 16th, 2010 Peter Thoemmes says:

Thanks for the help. I still wonder why this can't be done under "System->Preferences>Encryption and Keyrings". I would have expected the stuff there. And of course the concept maintaining this password separately to the login password seems a bit funny to me.

Re: How to change the default keyring password in Ubuntu ...

On November 30th, 2009 Anonymous says:

I do not understand how this kind of stupidity has ever found its way to a public distributed distribution.
It took me half an hour to find what to do, and I'm a pro. It might be that an average guy don't find a way at all.

Re: How to change the default keyring password in Ubuntu ...

On September 19th, 2009 Mark Ford says:

I had this problem with Ubuntu Netbook Remix but my situation required a little different resolution. No matter what I did it did not appear to recognize my password when trying to connect back up with my wireless network. I was sure I was typing it in correctly but nothing seemed to help. Changing the password here did not help either. In addition to changing the password I noticed that you can delete the password entry so I did. I then tried to connect to my network and instead of asking for the password it just had me enter my WEP code (like the first time) and then asked me for a new password. I realized then that I must have had the caps lock on the first time (I entered the WEP code in uppercase).

So if you forget your password it looks like you can delete the entry (choose Delete instead of Change Password above) and then you can enter it again.

Note: instead of Password: Login however I had Password: Default. Not sure if that makes a difference.

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