"Default Keyring" Asks For Original Password
Bug #230032 reported by
Joe Fisher
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #162710: Cannot access wireless networks keys when user change his session password..
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| seahorse (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Changed the password for a non-privileged user with gnome-about-me. Then changed that user's privileges to allow 'administering the system'. When logging on again as that user, a dialog box says that nm-applet needs access to the default keyring, and asks for the user's password. Only the original password for that user will work - the new one has no effect. I assume this is a security vulnerability.
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| Artem Popov (artfwo) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in seahorse: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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Thanks for the bug report. This bug is already a known issue, and a workaround is to manually change your gnome-keyring password to match the user password. After that it will not ask the password every time.
I'm not sure which bug does this one relate to, as there's quite a number of them:
bug 137247
bug 162710
bug 181281