Linux mint what is keyring

When we configure our account for login automatically, wheen booting we will be asked for our password for unlock the login keyring. If nobody else use your computer, this is useless, but it’s really easy to remove:

First of all, we have to search for Passwords and Encryption Keys. Also you can open it from terminal:

You have to go to Passwords Tab, and there you will se a folder: Passwords: login

Right Click and then Change Password. Enter your old password, and leave blank the new password fields.

Now you can try rebooting, it shouldn’t appear now!

Also, the login keyring ask for the password if you have changed your user password. Doing this can fix that, just in the new passsword fields enter your new password.

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I went to this link, http://askubuntu.com/questions/65281/how-to-recover-reset-forgotten-gnome-keyring-password
Then in the terminal, I just opened up seahorse and under Passwords, I right clicked and selected Delete to reset the keyring password. It actually deleted that keyring password. I did restart seahorse and typed a new keyring password after that. (I did all of this because for some reason I could not reset the keyring password. I guess this happened because I reset my administrative, or PC login). Although this procedure did work for me.

You could try: (for Gnome 3, I am using Ubuntu-Gnome)

System. Preferences..Startup Programs and uncheck the Gnome Keyrings. (or something similar)

WooHoo easy=-peasy and intuitive once you know.

had to install seahorse, but then it worked great! thanks.

if making new users was REALLY simple then keyrings are useless.
(ie what groups they need, remove computer updates. setting language for new users, use same windows setup as admin, which applets to have, not force 8 char in windowed add user, copy privacy settings in FF+chromium, let possibility to install from only specific parts of software Manager(thinking of wife and kids here),)

it’s a real pain this thing, if I use chromium logged in with my google account the thing pops up all the time! Even cuts my wifi.
This should be changed.

Disabling the gnome keyring is a security risk !

Thanks! This worked on my Mint 17.2 Mate 64bit — Cheers!

Renaming the folder /home/username/.local/share/keyrings to /home/username/.local/share/keyrings.old and a restart solved my problem.

This didn’t solve my problem with the keyring question every time I login.

I was not able to enter the old password.

But I have solved it by moving the file .local/share/keyrings/login.keyring away, then creating a new keyring named «login» using seahorse and then replacing the new login.keyring by the old again.

For details see: http://askubuntu.com/questions/65281/how-to-recover-reset-forgotten-gnome-keyring-password

Gnome keyring has never worked for me, not in Mint 13 and not in Mint 17. I’ve been asking how to make it work but never got an answer.

It never ask for a password with auto login enabled.

I found this answer better: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=118891#p686639

On my installation here (12.04), the folder is called «Passwords: default»

eamrnr Maybe when changing the password you put a wrong one. You can try this for change it: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LostPassword Also works on mint.

capt_coaldale Did you get any error message?

Installed Mint yesterday. Changed my password and now Mint doesn’t recognize the old or the new password. Any idea what I can do?

Didn’t work for me. The password refuses to change.

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The Keyring Concept in Ubuntu: What is It and How to Use it?

Last updated October 29, 2020 By Abhishek Prakash 75 Comments

If you use automatic login in Ubuntu or other Linux distributions, you might have come across a pop-up message of this sort:

Enter password to unlock your login keyring
The login keyring did not get unlocked when you logged into your computer.

It keeps on popping up several times before disappearing if you keep on clicking cancel. You may wonder why do you keep seeing this keyring message all the time?

Let me tell you something. It’s not an error. It’s a security feature.

Surprised? Let me explain the keyring concept in Linux.

What is keyring in Linux and why is it used?

Why do you use a keyring (also called keychain) in the real life? You use it to keep one or more keys grouped together so that they are easy to find and carry.

It’s the same concept in Linux. The keyring feature allows your system to group various passwords together and keep it one place.

Most desktop environments like GNOME, KDE, Xfce etc use an implementation of gnome-keyring to provide this keyring feature in Linux.

This keyring keeps your ssh keys, GPG keys and keys from applications that use this feature, like Chromium browser. By default, the keyring is locked with a master password which is often the login password of the account.

Every user on your system has its own keyring with (usually) the same password as that of the user account itself. When you login to your system with your password, your keyring is unlocked automatically with your account’s password.

The problem comes when you switch to auto-login in Ubuntu. This means that you login to the system without entering the password. In such case, your keyring is not unlocked automatically.

Keyring is a security feature

Remember I told you that the keyring was a security feature? Now imagine that on your Linux desktop, you are using auto-login. Anyone with access to your desktop can enter the system without password but you have no issues with that perhaps because you use it to browse internet only.

But if you use a browser like Chromium or Google Chrome in Ubuntu, and use it to save your login-password for various websites, you have an issue on your hand. Anyone can use the browser and login to the websites for which you have saved password in your browser. That’s risky, isn’t it?

This is why when you try to use Chrome, it will ask you to unlock the keyring repeatedly. This ensures that only the person who knows the keyring’s password (i.e. the account password) can use the saved password in browser for logging in to their respective websites.

If you keep on cancelling the prompt for keyring unlock, it will eventually go away and let you use the browser. However, the saved password won’t be unlocked and you’ll see ‘sync paused’ in Chromium/Chrome browsers.

If this keyring always exited, why you never saw it?

That’s a valid question if you have never seen this keyring thing in your Linux system.

If you never used automatic login (or changed your account’s password), you might not even have realized that this feature exists.

This is because when you login to your system with your password, your keyring is unlocked automatically with your account’s password.

Ubuntu (and other distributions) asks for password for common admin tasks like modifying users, installing new software etc irrespective of whether you auto login or not. But for regular tasks like using a browser, it doesn’t ask for password because keyring is already unlocked.

When you switch to automatic login, you don’t enter the password for login anymore. This means that the keyring is not unlocked and hence when you try to use a browser which uses the keyring feature, it will ask to unlock the keyring.

You can easily manage the keyring and passwords

Where is this keyring located? At the core, it’s a daemon (a program that runs automatically in the background).

Don’t worry. You don’t have to ‘fight the daemon’ in the terminal. Most desktop environments come with a graphical application that interacts with this daemon. On KDE, there is KDE Wallet, on GNOME and others, it’s called Password and Keys (originally known as Seahorse).

Password And Keys App Ubuntu

You can use this GUI application to see what application use the keyring to manage/lock passwords.

As you can see, my system has the login keyring which is automatically created. There is also a keyrings for storing GPG and SSH keys. The Certificates is for keeping the certificates (like HTTPS certificates) issued by a certificate authority.

You can also use this application to manually store passwords for website. For example, I created a new password-protected keyring called ‘Test’ and stored a password in this keyring manually.

This is slightly better than keeping a list of passwords in a text file. At least in this case your passwords can be viewed only when you unlock the keyring with password.

Saving New Password Seahorse

One potential problem here is that if you format your system, the manually saved passwords are definitely lost. Normally, you make backup of personal files, not of all the user specific data such as keyring files.

There is way to handle that. The keyring data is usually stored in

/.local/share/keyrings directory. You can see all the keyrings here but you cannot see its content directly. If you remove the password of the keyring (I’ll show the steps in later section of this article), you can read the content of the keyring like a regular text file. You can copy this unlocked keyring file entirely and import it in the Password and Keys application on some other Linux computer (running this application).

So, let me summarize what you have learned so far:

Most Linux has this ‘keyring feature’ installed and activated by default
Each user on a system has its own keyring
The keyring is normally locked with the account’s password
Keyring is unlocked automatically when you login with your password
For auto-login, the keyring is not unlocked and hence you are asked to unlock it when you try to use an application that uses keyring
Not all browsers or application use the keyring feature
There is a GUI application installed to interact with keyring
You can use the keyring to manually store passwords in encrypted format
You can change the keyring password on your own
You can export (by unlocking the keyring first) and import it on some other computer to get your manually saved passwords

Change keyring password

Suppose you changed your account password. Now when you login, your system tries to unlock the keyring automatically using the new login password. But the keyring still uses the old login password.

In such a case, you can change the keyring password to the new login password so that the keyring gets unlocked automatically as soon as you login to your system.

Open the Password and Keys application from the menu:

Password And Keys App Ubuntu

Now, right click on the Login keyring and click on Change Password:

Change Keyring Password

You probably know that it is easy to reset forgotten password in Ubuntu. The problem comes with the keyring in such cases. You changed the account password but you don’t remember the old account password that is still used by the keyring.

Now you cannot change it because you don’t know the old password. What to do now?

In such a case, you’ll have to remove the entire keyring itself. You can do that from the Passwords and Keys application:

Delete Keyring Ubuntu

It will ask for your confirmation:

Alternatively, you may also manually delete the keyring files in

When the old keyring is removed and you try to use Chrome/Chromium, it will ask you to create new keyring.

You can use the new login password so that the keyring gets unlocked automatically.

Disable keyring password

In cases where you want to use automatic login but don’t want to unlockk keyring manually, you may choose to disable the keyring with a workaround. Keep in mind that you are disabling a security feature so think twice before doing so.

The process is similar to changing keyring password. Open Password and Keys application and go on to change the keyring password.

The trick is that when it asks to change the password, don’t enter a new password and hit Continue instead. This will remove any password from the keyring.

Disable Keyring Password Ubuntu

This way, the keyring will have no password and it remains unlocked all the time.

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How to change keyring password in Ubuntu/Linux Mint?

Recently I changed the password of my Ubuntu account now when I log in to my account and start an application it asks “Authentication required to unlock your login keyring”.

So in this article, we will understand the concept of a keyring used in Linux and discuss the steps to change the keyring password or solve this thing.

What is a keyring in Linux?

The keyring is a security feature in Linux that allows the system to group the various passwords together. Keyring in Linux locked with a master password by default it is the password of the user account which is created at the time of installation of the operating system.

A keyring keeps SSH keys, GPG keys, and the keys from the applications that use this feature like google chrome.

Steps to change the keyring password

When you change your account password and login into your system keyring tries to unlock automatically with the new password. But it still uses the old password.

So if it asks you to enter the keyring password immediately after changing the password enter the old password of your account.

After changing the password of your account you could follow the step below to change the keyring password –

1. Open the password and keys application from the menu.

2. Once the application gets started right-click on the Login and then click on the Change the password option.

3. Next it will ask you to enter the old password ” Login ” keyring, enter the old password of your account, and then click on Continue.

4. Now a new dialog will appear, enter the new password and then confirm it. Finally, click on Continue to change the password.

You have successfully changed the keyring password of your system.

Conclusion

In some cases, it once asks you to enter the keyring password and then automatically update it to get unlocked automatically in the future.

The steps given in the article can be used to change the keyring password manually. Now you can share your thought by writing us in the comments below.

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