[ubuntu-uk] Keyring password error

[Neil Greenwood]

On 13.10.11 16:58, dianne reuby wrote:
> I have 10.10 Ubuntu. Used my machine with no problems this morning. Just
> switched back on and logged on to my account OK. But I get a message
> that my login password and my keyring password don't match, and to enter
> the password.
> 
> Are the admin password and keyring password usually the same? And what
> can I have done to change the keyring password? Updates yesterday
> included linux headers, and today I think was only Chrome.
> 
> Password and Encryption shows only one password, and that's login - but
> it's blank, including date created. I can't reset - I don't know what
> the "old" password is set to, as it says it isn't my admin password.
> 
>[snip]

Sorry for the late reply.

I've seen this happen before when I've changed my user's password using
the Change Password option on the About Me applet. The keyring password
is the same as your user's login password normally (I think that's what
you mean by admin password, the login password you enter to administer
your machine).

There's a bug in that Change Password screen, where it updates the login
password but not the keyring password. If you open a terminal and use
"passwd" to change your password, that correctly keeps the 2 in sync.
It's been reported and was marked as a papercut at one point, but IIRC
there's too much work involved to fix it and no one has actually done
the fix.

If you have changed your password, you can get them back in sync like this:
1. log in as normal
2. Open the "Passwords and Encryption Keys" application
3. Right click the "login" option and choose Change Password. Enter your
old login password followed by your new password twice.

Of course, that only works if you can remember your old password. If you
can't I think you have to delete the "login" entry and create a new
keyring, but I have never done this so I'd search Google for some help.

>
> At the moment it won't even let me send email, even though I know the
> server passwords!
> TIA
> Dianne
>

You know them, but the email program can't access them! If you unlock or
delete the old entry, a new one should give the email program its memory
back...

HTH
Cofion/Regards,
Neil.