[Bug 1110552] [NEW] Enabling automatic login leads to undesirable GNOME Keyring prompt

[Dylan McCall]

Public bug reported:

Ubiquity makes it easy to create a new user account that logs in
automatically without the need to enter a password. However, once a user
_uses_ this account for a while, many well-behaved applications (such as
Network Manager, Nautilus and Google Chrome) will want to store
passwords and retrieve passwords from the login keyring. With a laptop
connecting to a secure wifi network, this means a user is logged in
automatically but will need to enter a password within five seconds to
connect to the network. That is arguably worse, for most users, than
just typing a password at the login screen.

It would be a huge improvement for Ubiquity to set a blank keyring
password in this case, along with a note explaining that automatic login
disables secure password storage. Without automatic login, of course,
the login keyring should stay as it is, encrypted with the user's
password.

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Enabling automatic login leads to undesirable GNOME Keyring prompt

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubiquity makes it easy to create a new user account that logs in
  automatically without the need to enter a password. However, once a
  user _uses_ this account for a while, many well-behaved applications
  (such as Network Manager, Nautilus and Google Chrome) will want to
  store passwords and retrieve passwords from the login keyring. With a
  laptop connecting to a secure wifi network, this means a user is
  logged in automatically but will need to enter a password within five
  seconds to connect to the network. That is arguably worse, for most
  users, than just typing a password at the login screen.

  It would be a huge improvement for Ubiquity to set a blank keyring
  password in this case, along with a note explaining that automatic
  login disables secure password storage. Without automatic login, of
  course, the login keyring should stay as it is, encrypted with the
  user's password.

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