unlock keyring

[Michael Butash]

Lyle,

  I had the same issue, setting passwords in the "password and
encryption key" manager section.  By default it relies on your login,
once logged in, unlocks that user.  If you set a different password, the
system can no longer transparently pass those credentials to the
application requesting keyring access.  

  You're not going to be able to reverse/see the password on your
keyring, so best option would be to delete your existing keys and start
over.  If you delete your "my personal keys", log out, and log back in,
I think it'll rebuild them.  This should bind everything to your login
account credentials, which is what you'll want for a desktop os.
Anything else ends up being a PITA with Ubuntu.

  A more heavy handed approach would be to nuke the directory as Joseph
recommended, log out, and log back in.  I believe this is what I did
after futzing with it for far too long after being nagged incessantly to
authorize for wifi keys distribution.

-mb


On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 08:58 -0700, 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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