unlock keyring

Joseph Sinclair plug-discussion at stcaz.net
Sat May 23 09:44:18 MST 2009


the Gnome keyring is stored in ~/.gnome2/keyrings.
rm everything under that directory and you'll be able to start over with a new keyring password (warning, you will lose all passwords stored in the keyring, but I presume that's what you want to do in this case).

Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> OK, I installed ubuntu 9.04 as the only system on the computer.  (Did 
> this at the instalfest about a month ago...)
> 
> It fired up and worked great -- I installed a new wireless card, and 
> obtained wireless access at the instalfest no problem......got home, 
> and tried to log on to my home wireless...no joy.
> 
> I fiddled and screwed around, looked at docs, emailed some for help, 
> and finally, this morning got back to serious business trying to 
> 'fix' this thing.
> 
> I "think" I may have found the problem (don't ask my why, but it 
> seems the driver was not activated?  If that is so, how did I connect 
> at the installfest???), but now another one has blocked my access to 
> the wireless section -- during all this messing around, I must have 
> placed a password on the keyring......#$*&^%$ Passwords, anyway!!!!
> 
> Well, I've tried every password combination I can think of, no joy.
> 
> Is there any way to see what it should be, and then either remove it 
> or change it or WRITE IT DOWN for future use?
> 
> TIA
> 
> lyle
> 
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