I am running Fed35 workstation (thus Gnome) using evolution for mail I want to change the password for user (myself). But I remember from a couple of years ago that this gave problems with evolution and gnome-keyring: something like being prompted on startup evolution for a password to unlock the login keyring and that nothing I tried (after internet search) worked. I "solved" the problem then by installing thunderbird which did not have this problem and erasing evolution. My question now is: how can I change the user password and evade the problems caused by evolution, gnome-keyring, pam whatever. That is how can I change everything needed in one go. I do not even understand what is happening because I have never needed to study the arcane mysteries of gnome-keyring/pam etc. (and when I looked the docs I found were not very clear). Can somebody refer me to a detailed schedule of what is actually happening so I can understand it and work out the steps needed myself. Or better yet give me the necessary instructions. (I am getting too old for these kinds of things :)) AV _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure

On Thu, 2021-11-04 at 11:47 +0000, Matti Pulkkinen wrote: > Hello, > > While I'm not familiar with the arcane magics of gnome-keyring and > friends either, this problem may have been caused by a bug that has > since been fixed. I say this because I have changed my user password > on > this machine, both in F33 and now in F34, without it causing any big > problems with Evolution, though I believe in all cases I've either > logged out or rebooted after changing my password. > > - Before taking up poc's suggestion I tried this (rebooting) first. And lo it worked. But only after I 'unlocked' with the old password first. So to summarize: 1) change password 2) reboot or log out 3) start evolution and "unlock" with the OLD password 4) evolution works as before.

The 3rd option seems to work but now I am wondering if the 'encrypt <-> re-encrypt' actually took place and if I don't have a potential problem lurking in the background?