GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 484391
Can't change keyring password
Last modified: 2007-10-09 18:48:05 UTC
Please describe the problem: Its impossible to change the keyring password, as there is no interface to do that anywhere. I'm assuming that the capability isn't there. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information: Normally one would want the keyring password to be identical to the login password - there's even a pam_keyring module which supposedly should pre-authenticate to the keyring manager using the user's login password (though I never got it to work). The problem arises when the user needs to change the login password due to different reasons (the password being compromised, domain policy to change passwords once in a while, etc'). Currently when such an event occurs, the user has no other option except deleting their keyring with all the passwords stored in it, and creating a new one. I couldn't even find an export function so I could delete the keyring w/o losing all the data.
You can do this via 'Passwords and Encryption Keys' in the Preferences menu (ie: seahorse).
I couldn't find this "Passwords and Encryption Keys" in any menu or dialog under either seahorse or gnome-keyring-manager, in either GNOME 2.18 or 2.20. Can you please point me in the right direction ?
Oh, sorry - seahorse is "Passwords and Encryption Keys". I still can't find a way to change the keyring password in either the seahorse interface or the gnome-keyring-manager interface: I've looked in all the menus, dialogs and options.