Keyring Password Kept Blank but not recognised as blank (Ubuntu One set up)

[Karen Vincent]

There are a lot of threads about the Keyring Password but none quite match the problem I am encountering.

I have run Ubuntu for a while now, and am currently using Ubuntu 12.04. I use a password on log in (ie I do not use automatic log in) and I am the only user.

I have never entered a Keyring Password and have just left this blank. Whenever this was prompted for (very rarely) I found that just leaving it blank and pressing Enter gave the 'correct' answer to the prompt.

That was until I tried to set up Ubuntu One. I had a pre-existing Ubuntu One account (set up online a while back) so tried to set up Ubuntu One from the desktop using this. It asked for the Keyring Password but the usual trick of leaving it blank did not work - it just prompted for the password again. There didn't seem to be a way around this so I have cancelled the set up until this Keyring problem can be resolved.

I have gone into 'Passwords and Keys' from the Dash, right-clicked on the Passwords:Login folder and attempted various possibilities in the Change Password options as all the other threads suggest, but always with the same result - the original password is incorrect.

The original password as far as I am aware is blank but leaving it blank does not work. Neither are there any ****s present to suggest that a password might be present (would there be if one was??)

If I delete the Keyring Password as other threads suggest
1) Is the feature automatically restored, so that all I will have to do is go through the annoyance of inputting any passwords I had saved for a while? (and setting the keyring itself initially to my login password just to prevent the problem happening again)
2) Do I lose the password login to my system, and potentially give myself a system I can no longer access? (ie should I set it to automatic login first)

Many thanks for any assistance,

Karen

[Themotorman]

the ubunbtu one password that seems to work for me is " login", this is not the same as the email/password combo that I use to login..very odd but it worked...
Anyone interested around who can explain this ?