I am very annoyed with having to type in a password every 2 min. when I am not actively using my netbook. I absolutely am NOT interested in changing the password at all. I want to get rid of the constant pop up requesting it---- how do I get rid of the password requirement forever? I am relatively new with the linux system. I love the system much more than ANY windows OS- I absolutely can't stand microsoft windows. I bought my toshiba netbook about a month ago. It had the Starter Edition Windows 7 which is nothing more than a super proprietary marketing scheme to force users into buying the software costing hundreds of dollars. Besides, I can't stand that it is always forced on the consumer to have the windows OS and not a choice. Since the install of ubuntu my boot up time is now 6-7 minutes. I would appreciate help with getting rid of the need to constantly enter a password and what to do about my boot up speed. thanks, I am a grandmother who was the first in her office to have a computer back in the 1980's.

Thanks a lot! Just changed an Ubuntu install password and got this popup asking for a password to unlock the login keyring. After the new password did not work, I tried the older one and it did. But gee, I wanted to change it to the new one. Googled how to change this login keyring password and got to this page, and changed it to my new system password. Still, this is one annoying flaw and/or oversight in Ubuntu.

thank you very much. quite useful.

Since I have automatic login I have to put the password in the keyring whenever I need to check my mail even though the password for login and for keyring are the same.

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.

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.

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.