password for keyring 8.10 wireless

[Mike McMullin]

  I got an instant message from a friend last night who has a visitor
wanting to use her wireless network.  The system is a laptop with Ubuntu
8.10  and it keeps asking for the keyring password in order to log into
the protected network, they have tried using the login password and just
a blank password, but failed.  There is only one log-in account, and it
has networking privileges as well as administer the system privileges.
  Can this prompt be eliminated or a password be set for the keyring,
and if so how?