Every time I log in, all my online accounts, email accounts, and calendars get invalidated because it says “Keyring password does not match your login password” and my password doesn’t work to unlock the keyring. All the solutions out there say to delete the keyring files in ~/.local/share/keyring a…

Thank you. Changing my password with this tool has stopped the onslaught of Keyring errors. So, is it not safe to change password in the Settings > Users panel then?

This is normal if someone wants to use different session and keyring passwords. Otherwise, changing one requires to change the other to keep them in sync.

Got it. As the result of some other tinkering I had been doing weeks ago, I didn’t notice I was using X11 windowing system since then. I think the keyring issue started around that time. Now I’m back on Wayland as well, that might also have cleared it up. Thanks again for your response and solution

@vgaetera This issue has cropped up again - sometimes when I log in I am inundated with ““Keyring password does not match your login password”” messages. My password (the only password I use on this machine) is incorrect. If I restart my computer there is no problem with using the computer. If I lo…

I am also experiencing this issue. I’m seeing some other topic posts relating to this. For me I get this impossible keyring error whenever I try to sign into Firefox Sync. Its baffling.

Hi. I tried deleting ~/.local/share/keyring. Didn’t work. I tried seahorse solution. Didn’t work too. 2 simple steps solved this for me. I had this problem twice and this worked twice. 1)Try a clean install of Fedora from the media created in Fedora Media Writer. 2) Install during the daytime, …

Keyring Authentication required prompt every login

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vgaetera (Vladislav Grigoryev) December 17, 2021, 11:00pm 2

sudo dnf install seahorse

Applications > Passwords and Keys > Passwords > Login > Change Password

Authentication always required after boot

Auto-login does not unlock keyring and opens 2 login prompts which must be completed before applications can be opened

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Keyring Authentication required prompt every login

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