Comment 16 for bug 1451865

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In , 8-kde (8-kde) wrote :

(In reply to Cjacker from comment #9)
> pam_kwallet still had some limitions:
>
> 1, it only handle wallet named 'kdewallet'.
>
> 2, If you had 'kdewallet' created already, need to set the wallet password
> as same as account password.
>
> 3, it did not implement 'pam_sm_chauthtok' currently, that's to say, use
> 'passwd' utility to change account password, will NOT change 'wallet'
> password, kwallet still use the old password, you need to change it manually.
>
> I checked kwalletd/kwallet codes and found it is REALLY difficult to change
> runtime kwallet password via pam_sm_chauthtok. kwallet load everything to
> memory, if password changed via kwalletmanager5, it will sync back via
> kwallet backend. change 'salt' from outside can not change the password of
> wallet.

This one is true. But good news - the replacement KSecrets Service will handle that for you automagically.