NetworkManager & keyring

[Bastien Nocera]

On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 22:19 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> After a few days of using a fresh F11 setup, upon login I was told
> nm-applet wants to access default keyring, but it's locked. Enter
> password.
> 
> Hm. Don't know what password. Tried my account and root password, no
> luck. Searched help for how to change keyring password, nope.
> Ah, found Preferences -> Encryption and Keyrings, that will help. Uhm... no.
> 
> Tried a restart, same question. Tried to add another network
> connection to get my net working, but still NM wants to know the
> default keyring password. I want that too :) Finally I tried my
> initial account password used on install (which I changed a few days
> later), that was it!

That means there was a problem with your installation. Changing the
user's password is supposed to change the default GNOME keyring password
to match as well.

in /etc/pam.d/passwd:
-password   optional    pam_gnome_keyring.so

So, how did you change your password?

> Could this behaviour be changed to: when a keyring needs to be setup,
> prompt user with a dialog explaining what a keyring is and ask for a
> password.

Huh.

> (about my recent posts - I've been influenced in the last 2 years by
> working together with a few professional UX folks. However, I'm not a
> person with UX studies/certifications. I just hope to show you the
> experience of a new Linux user)