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I often have to shake my laptop right after Ubuntu 10.04 boots up for one reason, and the reason is that it complains about how keyring did not get unlocked.  Well, the part of shaking my laptop is a figure of speech, it’s how I feel, but no real action was taken place which could be very damaging to my laptop’s health.  Anyway, to solve this annoying symptom, I had to go to Application that located at the very top panel, go to Accessories, click on Passwords and Encryption Keys, right click on Passwords: login, and click on Change Password.  Enter the old password which probably is your user’s password (the one you use to login to your computer), and don’t forget to enter the new password to change the password into something easy to remember.

Keyring’s password is not a login password, and so it can be a simple password (such as a short password) — you don’t have to type your login password twice just to get a computer up and your wireless connection going.  If you don’t mind typing in a very long login password twice right after your computer boots up (keyring requests it once), then this little tip/trick is a redundancy.  Forget about it, and go on with your geeky life!  Unless… you can use this little tip to please yourself.

Personally, I prefer my keyring’s password short and simple as I don’t have to waste my keystrokes to get my wireless connection going.  What about security?  Sure, short and simple password is not a good security measure, but keyring password isn’t your login password, and so hackers won’t be able to login to your computer with a keyring password.  When hackers have your computer’s password, it’s futile to stop them from changing your keyring password.