Thanks for reporting this issue. This is by design, your keyring is unlocked automatically using your login password.
Asking for a password after your keyring is unlocked would be security theatre and would not improve security. For more information see here: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/SecurityPhilosophy https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#gnome-keyring ** Information type changed from Private Security to Public ** Changed in: seahorse (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to seahorse in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1192659 Title: Keyring passwords visible after login without second password prompt Status in “seahorse” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: in ubuntu 13.04 (64bit), after logging into the desktop you are able to open seahorse and see passwords without any prompt. Steps to reproduce: 1. Login to Ubuntu Desktop 2. Open Seahorse 3. right click on any account and select "properties" 4. click on "password" 5. tick the 'show password' box. Result, passwords exposed without prompting for a password. Expected Result: for clean installs, whenever a user opens seahorse a password prompt appears before allowing the user to access any account details. Allowing the current behavior should be an opt-in Seahorse Version is: 3.6.3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seahorse/+bug/1192659/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
