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Keyring On Startup popup

I forgot my password recently, so I had to use Ubuntu's recovery mode to change it to something else. I used this command: passwd username and I was then prompted for the new password. Then I rebooted and logged in. Everything went very smoothly, except that now everytime I log in I see this pop-up 3 times before I can do anything else:

Very Annoying!

I've tried entering my current password but that doesn't work. How can I get this annoying pop-up to stop showing up? I looked at this question however the checkbox to make this connection available to all users is disabled for me.

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Kredns
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  • Open your Home Folder(Places>>Home Folder )
  • Press Ctrl+H to view hidden files.
  • Open .gnome2 folder and then keyrings folder and delete login.keyring file.
  • Reboot the system.
  • The pop-up will be disappeared now.
karthick87
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The system asks you to "Unlock your keyring" because it wants to access some passwords that are stored on your computer. This could be, for example, the password to connect to your wireless network. See it as an extra protection: The system wants to make sure that you in person allow programs accessing passwords.

On the other hand, as you mention it is quite a paradox behavior. After all you selected that you do not want to enter a password on login. So the reasoning above makes only half sense.

In fact, this wrong system behavior has already been identified by the developers. There is Bug #553646 on Ubuntu's bug tracking platform Launchpad which you can follow to see progress made.

If you sign up on Launchpad and select "This bug affects me too" you can contribute to raise attention for this bug :).

Ingo
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You could just change the password on the keyring. See this blog post for information on accomplishing just that.

Michael Trausch
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It is also important to set 'login' keyring as default. Right click on key ring and choose set as default. After that 'default keyring' can be removed. Of course this removes all passwords that were stored in keyring but for my it's good enough.

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