Wishlist: add patch from Gnome #338088 to allow password changing

[Peter Meiser]

Hi,

gnome-keyring already supports changing passwords. It would be great if you could change the passwords with gnome-keyring-manager.

There's a patch for it at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338088

Best regards,
Whoopie

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. The patch is not trivial, that would be nice if upstream comment on it before we use it for the Ubuntu package

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

This is probably too intrusive to add at this point. Upstream have since done a re-diff against their head and made one small update, even if it's not been applied or apparently had anything done with it.

Integrating 'libpam-keyring' into 'gdm' and 'gnome-screensaver' '/etc/pam.d' config files would avoid the need to do this. The other alternative is a command line utility just to change/reset the password.

[Peter Meiser (meiser79)]

You can change the password with the testing version of the pam-keyring-tool (http://www.hekanetworks.com/opensource/pam_keyring/testing/pam_keyring-0.0.8.tar.gz) as libgnome-keyring0 has already support for changing the keyring password.

[Peter Meiser (meiser79)]

Attached a patch patch for pam-keyring-tool to change password.

This would be Paul's mentioned alternative for a command line utility to change the password.

[Peter Meiser (meiser79)]

Seahorse is now able to change the gnome-keyring password.

But how should the user know that?

[Peter Meiser (meiser79)]

Closing this report because seahorse is doing the job now.

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

fixed-upstream