Why do I need to enter a password for the Default Keyring to unlock?

"This can happen if your machine is configured to auto-login. You can work your way around this by setting a blank password for the keyring manager. Follow this guide to do this. This allows anyone using the computer to access your passwords.

There are a few other cases where you get asked for the keyring password, which I'm not very clear about. However, this prompt is not raised for most configurations."

"This is slightly different in Ubuntu 11.10. I opened up seahorse and deleted the ""Passwords: default"" folder under the Passwords tab. Once I did this I saw no way to create a new ""Passwords: default"" folder.

So I went back to an application that wanted to store it's password in my keyring, I used Empathy for this. While re-logging into one of my accounts I was prompted with a dialog box that asked to enter my password for my chat account. I typed it in and hit ""Remember password"" checkbox.

I was then prompted by a second dialog, ""New Keyring Password"". Here's where it was saying that ""An Application wants to create a new keyring called 'Default'. Choose the password you want to use for it."" I left this password box blank, and just clicked OK.

Finally I was presented with a 3rd dialog box asking me if I wanted to ""Store passwords unencrypted?"" Here I selected ""Use Unsafe Storage""."

"This worked for me

alt-f2 seahorse

(or just System - Preferences - Passwords and Encryption keys)

On passwords tab, right click and select delete

Close seahorse and open it again (there was a message stating that default keyring was not found

File - New - Password keyring: name: default

Leave it blank (no password)

Click ""use unsafe storage""

that did the trick for me"