Jesse Keating wrote:
The gnome keyring is a secure storage of various passphrases that
you
may use during your session. It typically has one password to unlock
the key, and then other passphrases can be fetched from the keyring for
various applications. Quite often, the keyring has the same password as
your login password, but this isn't required (nor should it be
encouraged).
My experience (with KDE) is that NM sometimes gets into a state
where it endlessly asks you for your keyring password.
In general, NM seems to suffer from severe short-term memory failure,
asking the same question over and over again.