GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 775908
Chrome sync password change doesn't synchronise with key ring
Last modified: 2018-08-03 19:52:23 UTC
I recently changed my google account password. I have 2FA enabled. Now every time I close Chrome and reopen it, Chrome account sync tells me "a recent change in your account means you need to log in again". I enter my new password and 2FA token, and it logs in. Now, however, every single web page I was logged into, including gmail and my work google account, as well as all the other sites, facebook, slack, github, bitbucket, confluence, messenger etc etc, are all logged out, and I have to log back in again. I tried removing my account from Chrome and re-adding it. That didn't work. Only after I had deleted all my keys from Seahorse's "Default keyring", and then relogin with everything, did sync work again. Note that at the time I had auto-login enabled, which meant I kept on getting the "Unlock Login Keyring" popup. I'm not sure if this is a factor. So somehow, either due to a bug in the "Passwords and Keys" app, or something to do with the keyring being unavailable if you have auto-login enabled, the password for Chrome sync is not updated. I am using this on Ubuntu 16.04
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