Keyring password

[Emmanuel Pacaud]

Upgrading from dapper to edgy, now evolution ask for a keyring password. There's no way to change/remove this password.

[Peter Meiser (meiser79)]

Hi,

have a look at libpam-keyring: http://www.hekanetworks.com/pam_keyring/

Best regards,
Whoopie

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Please describe one issue by bug. Is your issue due to the fact it uses the keyring or the fact you can't change the password. Have you tried gnome-keyring-manager for that?

[Emmanuel Pacaud (emmanuel-pacaud)]

I don't mind if evolution is using gnome-keyring.

Issue is until now, evolution never asked for a keyring passwd, and suddenly ask for one.
The good thing is I've figured out which passwd it asked, and remembered its value...

But now, I would like to have the previous behaviour back, i.e. no passwd when launching evolution, and it's not easy to find how to achieve that.

So issues are:

  - unwanted change in evolution behaviour (new passwd dialog).
  - no hint about where to change/remove this password.

Regarding gnome-keyring-manager itself, I did'nt find a way to change this password, but that's not an issue related to evolution.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Not really an evolution issue, looks like http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326925 upstream, marking as confirmed, something we should try to fix for edgy, maybe by using pam_keyring as pointed by a previous comment on that bug

[btdown (bob-brong)]

This bug is very annoying. Stop with the keyring nonsense and remove it altogether. I'm not about to log into the machine with a password, type a password to get into evolution, and who knows how many other passwords I'll have to type to get into other apps. This one has me tweaked.

[Dana Olson (adolson)]

Is this the same issue that I am having?

Every time Evolution tries to check for new mail on my POP3 account it asks me to enter my password, even though the checkbox is ticked to remember the password?

If it is not, then I will open a second bug report.

[btdown (bob-brong)]

The issue I bug reported is when you open Evolution, it makes you type
in a "default keyring password"..which, I'm assuming has something to do
with the Administration -> Keyring Manager. My passwords for the
pop3/imap seem to keep from session to session, its just that this
stupid keyring thing makes me enter my password before I get into
evolution.

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 03:36 +0000, Dana Olson wrote:

> Is this the same issue that I am having?
>
> Every time Evolution tries to check for new mail on my POP3 account it
> asks me to enter my password, even though the checkbox is ticked to
> remember the password?
>
> If it is not, then I will open a second bug report.
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The keyring stores the password for the different account, Dana your issue is probably a different one which makes the keyring not working (if you use edgy, the dapper version didn't use the keyring)

[Jay Pipes (jaypipes)]

Hi!

Having similar issues. Edgy, Knot 3. Evolution asks for keyring password when initially opening up. Also having same issues that every time I send/receive mail (POP3 _or_ IMAP) I get a dialog asking to enter my password, even though I check save my password.

Really frustrating. Would be cool if someone could post an easy workaround, or update on the status of the fix.

Cheers, and other than this, Edgy rocks!

Jay

[Akshat Aranya (aaranya+ubuntu)]

I'm facing a variation of the problem that Jay Pipes is facing. In my case, if I run Evolution in Gnome, it asks for the keyring password. After that, things work fine. However, if I run Evolution without Gnome (i.e., using Fluxbox), Evolution does not ask for the keyring password at startup. Instead, it asks for the passwords for the individual accounts. Even though I check "remember password", Evolution only remembers the IMAP account password whereas it forgets the password on my other account which is POP-S. Every time it decides to pop the email from that account, it keeps prompting me for the password which is annoying as hell!

[Stian Jordet (stian-web)]

Would be awesome to get libpam-keyring included in edgy... Would save a lot of unneeded and (IMHO) stupid password-typing. It's just very weird to have to enter the password three times (in my case) when you login.

[Akshat Aranya (aaranya+ubuntu)]

The latest Evolution that came down in Edgy (2.8.1) seems to have fixed this problem.

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

This is awaiting pam upgrade to 0.99 or greater. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360460 and bug #43169.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gnome-keyring has a pam module in gutsy

[Geoff (gcrook)]

The keyring "thing" is the most annoying aspect of Linux Evolution,period!
The pwd. never seems to be kept or never seems to work at all.
Futhermore, why the heck do I need more than a password?
I've NEVER ever had problems before with just a password.
Perhaps it is time to dump Evolution

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Geoff, commenting on a closed bug is not really the right place for such comment and evolution doesn't use the keyring anyway

[Geoff (gcrook)]

    Well, how come my Evolution keeps asking for the keyring password?
    If it is closed,then perhaps it should be reopened/

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 07:14 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:

> Geoff, commenting on a closed bug is not really the right place for such
> comment and evolution doesn't use the keyring anyway
>

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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

are you sure it asks for the keyring password and not simply an account password? it should be reopened if the issue was the same which is not the case there. What about openSUSE? If you use it launchpad is not the right place to send a comment and they might be using the keyring there

[Geoff (gcrook)]

Hi...Tnx again...I shall resolve th eissue myself.../gc

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> are you sure it asks for the keyring password and not simply an account
> password? it should be reopened if the issue was the same which is not
> the case there. What about openSUSE? If you use it launchpad is not the
> right place to send a comment and they might be using the keyring there
>
>

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[warmrobot (imfrolov)]

I can confirm this strange behaviour of Evolution since last update and can't see any fix in this topic. So, I reopened the bug.
I am on Hardy Heron

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

seahorse is installed in hardy and allow to change the keyring password, don't reopen the bug