unlock keyring -> password advice

[Lyle Tuttle]

At 09:11 AM 5/24/2009, you wrote:


>On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Lyle Tuttle 
><<mailto:L.tuttle at cox.net>L.tuttle at cox.net> wrote:
>
>I think I've been fscked now, and without a kiss.....
>
>Went to the suggested location to find my passwords, but it says 
>nothing is in the file......
>
>So the question is, would I rather let everyone have my data, or no 
>one, including me?
>
>I find that doubtful frankly.  I have two questions:
>    * Did you originally, or after the installation, set the option 
> to automatically log in without providing a password?

Frankly, I do not recall - it is possible.

>    *   Doing so would likely make the keyring ask you for the 
> password.  It would not have done so at the installfest because the 
> wireless network we connected to there does not require a 
> password/passphrase.  You home network should and that would have 
> been stored in the keyring.

Yes, my home network is WPA 2 (PSK), and I know that one very well.......

>    * What do you get is you open a terminal and type "ls -al 
> ~/.gnome2/keyrings" without the quotes (be sure to include the 
> period which is easy to miss).

I get:  "could not display  --  Nautilus cannot handle this kind of 
locations"   I took that to be a lower-case "L", not and upper-case 
"I" -- correct?  I have already deleted the old "default" (and other 
one) file in the location following the ~

lyle 
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