Can't Reset gnome-keyring Password?
Richard England
rlengland at verizon.net
Sat Mar 28 04:44:19 UTC 2009
rgheck wrote:
>
> For some time now, my daughter's been having a problem with her WPA key:
> NM asks for it every time she logs on. I seem to have figured out why,
> more or less. Let me say that she's using LXDE under F10 on an Eee 901.
>
> When trying to debug something else, I reset her password to what it
> originally was when I set up her account, and suddenly everything
> worked. I changed it to something else, and it didn't work; changed it
> back, and then it did again. So I ran Settings>Passwords, etc, or
> whatever it is, and there was a button that said something like "Reset
> keyring password". Unfortunately, clicking that button just got me an
> error message, something like "Unable to reset keyring password". Very
> helpful.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> rh
>
>
One solution might be to move or remove ~/.gnome2/keyrings directory. Or perhaps just the login.keyring file, therein and enter the new password when prompted. Not elegant but functional....
~~R
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