Comment 75 for bug 137247

I experience this problem in Intrepid. To reproduce:

1. assume you've got a fully installed Ubuntu Intrepid
2. set up your wireless internet to connect to your encrypted access point
3. make sure your login keyring (or default keyring) has a password, and set it to unlock automatically on login
4. set your user up to autologin
5. REBOOT your machine
6. just after you're autologged in, you'll be asked for a password to unlock the default keyring

AFAICT, the reason it happens is: Gnome's keyring auto-unlocker uses your login password to unlock the default keyring (if the passwords match). So when you login with a password, everything works fine. However, when you autologin, you don't type your password, so the auto-unlocker isn't able to use it to unlock the keyring.

It's not immediately obvious how to solve this securely. But I don't think we should ignore this or treat it as a feature, because
 a) anyone who sets up to autologin obviously doesn't want to type in a password, so it defeats the purpose of autologin,
 b) it encourages people to set up their default keyring with an empty password, which is insecure. (This is what I've done!)

Tchalvak, I disagree that wireless passwords are a security non-issue. I think they are an issue -- if people get access to my wireless access point, then they can steal all my bandwidth. They may even be able to sniff my traffic, I'm not sure. However, you're right: the convenience of automatically connecting to a network outweighs the security issues for most people.