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I read through all the related answers, but they do not apply to Ubuntu 14.04.

I have no .gnome2 folder and no Passwords and Encryption keys item in the system settings. I tried to crawl through every possible menu, but I could not find out how to do it.

The popup usually pops out when I start Chromium.

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    Exactly what answers you read and what is the dialog that appears? Google Chrome now has a thingy about an API keys, which could be the reason of the dialog.
    – Braiam
    Oct 5, 2014 at 15:17
  • @Braiam The popup is "Enter password to unlock your login keyring\n The login keyring did not get unlocked when you logged into your computer.". But it is ok, the accepted answer solved the problem.
    – Martin Drozdik
    Oct 6, 2014 at 3:56
  • @gsamaras The question you suggest is slightly different. It asks about popup at boot, while I ask about regular popups, mainly during the start of Chromium.
    – Martin Drozdik
    May 26, 2016 at 7:28
  • I agree @MartinDrozdik (you got my upvote already:) )
    – gsamaras
    May 26, 2016 at 16:02
  • askubuntu.com/questions/867/…
    – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com
    Apr 22, 2017 at 8:15

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Fire up "User Accounts", set "automatic login" to "off". At startup you will be asked your user/password only once; popups like "unlock keyring" will never pester you again.

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    Not true unless you seek out the keyring and tell it to use the "login" keyring instead of the "default" keyring. :P
    – Krista K
    Dec 10, 2014 at 3:50
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    I have never, never set my user account to automatic login . . . ever
    – mchid
    Aug 10, 2015 at 5:00
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    this is not true. I never had automatic login on and get the same problem, turned it on/off and it made no difference at all. ubuntu 14.04.03
    – Eric
    Oct 2, 2015 at 17:05
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    It is not the solution, because I want to have automatic login and don't want to see login keying
    – S M Abrar Jahin
    Mar 22, 2016 at 4:33
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    This is a workaround, not a solution for those that want automatic login.
    – JohnAllen
    Aug 14, 2016 at 13:42
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This is for 14.04

  1. Open the password/keyring manager from settings (or run it directly - seahorse)
  2. Ensure Menu > View > By Keyring is ticked.
  3. In the sidebar, under 'passwords' create a new keyring 'Unprotected' (or re-use an existing keyring, e.g. 'Default', but NOT 'Login' because that will make everything unprotected which you probably don't want)
  4. Right-click the new keyring, and 'set as default'
  5. Right-click the new keyring and set its password as empty (only needed if you adopted an existing keyring)
  6. In the 'Login' keyring, delete the network secret for your wifi.
  7. Go to the network manager and add the network again - its secret should appear in the default keyring, which has no password.
  8. Set the default keyring back to Login.
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    xfce does not have this option in the menu
    – Bhikkhu Subhuti
    Mar 14, 2016 at 1:34
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    done 1-5 steps on 14.04 and the problem - seems gone: popups appeared in various apps, like IDE when entering passwords inside, ssh clients and so on. Thanks!
    – yetanothercoder
    Dec 27, 2016 at 8:57
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    Under Kubuntu 14.04.5, how do I open the password/keyring manager? "User Accounts" under "System Settings" doesn't do it.
    – Paul A.
    Apr 6, 2018 at 20:48
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About the Chrome and the keyrings

This problem occurs because Chrome wants to store usernames/passwords in the keyring (so they are encrypted). Therefore, every time you open Chrome, it tries to unlock the keyring.

Please note that, in Linux, Chrome can use different keyring types for the passwords you store in the browser:

  • Basic keyring: where Chrome stores passwords in a local SQLite database called “Login Data” ($HOME/.config/chromium/Default/Login Data). There, the passwords are unencrypted.
  • Desktop keyrings: (i.e., gnome-keyring or KWallet) where Chrome stores the passwords in the services provided by GNOME or KDE. It stores the encrypted passwords in a special database that must be unlocked before it can be used.

To disable the “unlock your keyring” popup permanently, you may (1) instruct Chrome to avoid the desktop keyrings or (2) create a desktop keyring or modify the default one using Seahorse (for GNOME) or KDE Wallet Manager (for KDE).

You may instruct Chrome to avoid the desktop keyrings and use a local database. If you do that, Chrome will not try to unlock the keyring again. However, every time you instruct Chrome to "remember a password", the password will be stored in plan-text in the your local computer. An expert user may get access to your passwords in plan-text if you use this alternative. This solution is recommended only if you do not ask Chrome to remember your passwords.

Instructing Chrome to avoid the keyring

To run Chrome without using the keyring, you may use the option --password-store=basic:

$ google-chrome --password-store=basic

Modifying the Chrome launcher (icon) to avoid the keyring

Considering that you usually run Chrome doing a doble-click on an icon, you must change the command for the icons you use to include the additional option to run chrome in this way all the time. You may edit (1) the global launcher in the /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop folder or (2) the personal launcher file located in the ~/.local/share/applications/ directory.

  1. Edit the launcher file. For instance, using gedit

     sudo vi /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

  2. Modify the Exec= line to include the --password-store=basic option

     Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome  --password-store=basic (and any other option you want)
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    password-store=basic means that all you Chrome password will be stored in plain text which is unsafe. This answer isn't good at all.
    – tamerlaha
    Aug 1, 2018 at 10:20
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    It is a good answer if you do not store passwords in chrome
    – Marco Altieri
    Sep 24, 2018 at 11:10
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    --password-store=basic also works for other applications like opera. Similar to Marco I don't want to store passwords in my browser so this is a reasonable option for me and possibly others.
    – scai
    Dec 27, 2018 at 14:43
  • Whilst running /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --password-store=basic does solve the issue, editing the .desktop files you mentioned does not. At least not in 18.10 The "solution" is to set an empty password on your "Login" keyring (not your user).
    – Marc
    Jan 3, 2019 at 14:44
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    didn't work for me, but the seahorse solution (different answer) does.
    – Jörg Beyer
    Jan 2, 2020 at 14:09
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Just remove it's file as a charm:

rm ~/.local/share/keyrings/login.keyring
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    What are the implications of this? What is the file responsible for?
    – masterxilo
    Mar 6, 2020 at 11:28
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    Thanks. I was prompted to create new keyring after that - had to set it to empty password, then popup warned that passwords will be stored as plain text. Pressed ok, and no more popups, yay.
    – Klesun
    Jun 1, 2020 at 11:29
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    This was the only answer that actually helped. Thanks!
    – rayryeng
    Apr 9, 2021 at 2:35
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    Worked for me. Thanks.
    – Radim Cernej
    Apr 14, 2021 at 6:42
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    2021 : Linux Mint - Fix Works !
    – MarcoZen
    Jun 22, 2021 at 4:45
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It started popping up (after every logout) ever since I logged-in with new password.

In my case possword had been changed during my medical leave and once I came back, I changed the new password to my old login password (I remember that easily). It ended.

I changed my password using:

sudo passwd vimal

gave changed password for sudo, the current login and then new password (my old password, typed twice).

Shut-down.

And it did not come again!

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Just remove / turn off your online accounts when not needed. I had the same problem and I solved this by removing my online account.

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I know this question is rather old, but for me the cause was WiFi networks. The configuration utility for NetworkManager (right-click on nm-applet and choose "Edit Connections...") offers two ways to save a WiFi password - one is to use a keyring and the other is to save it internally. I had switched from using a keyring to saving it internally because I preferred the convenience of the latter method, however the password was still saved in the keyring which then wanted unlocking.

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