Unlock keyring immediately on login
LinuxI use the NetworkManager applet to manage my network connections on my Ubuntu laptop and the gnome-keyring-daemon to store my network passwords/keys. One thing that is a little annoying, is that once you login to your system, you have to unlock your keyring (if you are attempting to join a secure network).
I finally found way to get past this!
(NOTE: This fix requires your user password, and your keyring password be the same.)
First... sudo apt-get install libpam-keyring
Then, simply add one line to your /etc/pam.d/gdm
sudo vim /etc/pam.d/gdm
and add
@include common-pamkeyring
to the end of the file and save.
Aaron Lynch said:
Glad to hear it worked for you too. It seems like it should be something Ubuntu does by default.
gerard said:
what can i do if my password is not the same as my keyring password?
thanks! hope you can solve my problems
thanks! hope you can solve my problems
Aaron Lynch said:
If you look in your /home/[username]/ directory, and show hidden files, you should see something related to gnome-keyring or the like. There is a keyring called "default", just delete that and then when you are prompted to set your new keyring password, just be sure to use the same one as your user account uses.
Michael Mathews said:
Thanks Aaron, this worked perfectly and eliminated the very annoying chore of having to login and then immediately unlock the keychain every time. Kudos!
Colin Cook said:
Thanks, this is a great tutorial but i've got one little observation (as I'm a complete Linux noob)
Instead of using a complicated program like vim to edit that setting, why not use gedit? So the command line would be sudo gedit /etc/pam.d/gdm?
vim was only complicated since i've got no idea how to use it lol. But anyway, thanks for the help! :D
Instead of using a complicated program like vim to edit that setting, why not use gedit? So the command line would be sudo gedit /etc/pam.d/gdm?
vim was only complicated since i've got no idea how to use it lol. But anyway, thanks for the help! :D
bouchecl said:
Thanks for this Aaron.
As for the previous poster, try 'nano' instead of the (relative) "bloat" of a GUI editor like gedit.
The command would be
sudo nano -w /etc/pam.d/gdm (I always use the -[w]ide switch, it's safer with it)
As for the previous poster, try 'nano' instead of the (relative) "bloat" of a GUI editor like gedit.
The command would be
sudo nano -w /etc/pam.d/gdm (I always use the -[w]ide switch, it's safer with it)
Colin Cook said:
Thanks bouchecl, that's a really tiny but usable program! Will have to remember that.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Ed said:
I'm screwed. I did what you wrote and now I can't login. Ubuntu doesn't accept my username/passwd. Also tried root/passws but no go. ANY HELP??
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Aaron Lynch said:
Oh no, thats not good!. Can you login via failsafe terminal and comment-out the line you added to /etc/pam.d/gdm ?
For what its worth, I haven't needed to do this fix for a few versions of Ubuntu. (Since 8.04 or so)
For what its worth, I haven't needed to do this fix for a few versions of Ubuntu. (Since 8.04 or so)
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Thanks for sharing! I am sure to use this in my work.
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