Public bug reported:

On change of user login password with "passwd", the password to unlock
seahorse keyring is not automatically updated. On a subsequent
successful login to Gnome/Unity, a user is prompted to enter his/her
password in a dialogue window that eventually appears when the user
attempts to use a service for which seahorse keeps an authentication
token or password: "Enter password to unlock your keyring".

In order to answer this question correctly, the user has to enter
his/her OLD password, not the NEW one. All of the people whom I observed
responding to this question were confused into thinking they had to
enter their new password, which apparently did not work. Only when they
entered their old password into the seahorse dialogue, the seahorse
keyring was unlocked successfully and their user login password was then
updated in the seahorse keyring. Subsequent logins to Gnome/Unity work
just fine.

This bug is similar to bug #911426:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-
center/+bug/911426 where essentially the same behaviour was observed
with shadow authentication mechanism. In the present case, sss is used
for authentication.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: seahorse 3.20.0-5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-33.36-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
Date: Mon Aug 27 14:37:56 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-27 (121 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: seahorse
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: seahorse (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic

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  changing user login password via passwd does not update password to
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