> You just happened to choose to make your keyring password match your
login password way back when it first asked

Without wishing to contradict you, that's not correct -- not with recent
versions of Ubuntu, at least (I'm not sure about older versions).  If
you don't believe me, create a new account, log on to it, and try it
yourself.  The "login" keyring is set up with that user's login password
when you create the account.

The automatic unlocking, incidentally, is done by libpam-gnome-keyring:
"This package contains a PAM module that will automatically unlock the
keyrings using your login password, making gnome-keyring usage
transparent without losing its security benefits".  And that's the
problem: once you change your login password, libpam-gnome-keyring can
no longer unlock the "login" keyring with it, since users-admin doesn't
change that password in sync with the login password.

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[users-admin] changing password via users-admin doesn't change seahorse password
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271126
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