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Thread: Delete Saved Password in Terminal

  1. #1
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    Unhappy Delete Saved Password in Terminal

    I'm on 8.04. I was using ice window manager using terminal (I'm pretty sure the same one as default for gnome).
    I was getting git setup and I had to give it my SSH public key. I put that into some popup box and checked to save my key, but I put it in wrong. Now I can't figure out how to delete that saved thing. I already deleted the file in ~/.gnome2/keyrings/ (I forget what the name was but whatever single file was in there).
    If I don't delete this password I'll never be able to use git again.

  2. #2
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    Re: Delete Saved Password in Terminal

    Have you looked in "~/.ssh"?

    Running
    Code:
    ssh-vulnkey
    Should help you find it (mine was in the ~/.ssh directory as I mentioned a moment earlier).

    Regards
    Iain
    Last edited by ibuclaw; July 30th, 2008 at 03:38 AM.

  3. #3
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    Re: Delete Saved Password in Terminal

    I believe they should be stored in the seahorse application.

    Go to Applications -> Accessories -> Passwords and Encryptions keys

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    Re: Delete Saved Password in Terminal

    tinivole, the issue wasn't my ssh key it was that I typed something in that I thought was my ssh public key but wasn't and then saved that.

    Mister.Vash I went there and tried. now I actually deleted everything in there and it still won't work. It must be stored somewhere else.

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    Re: Delete Saved Password in Terminal

    Did you restart after removing them? I believe that it may be cached for the session

  6. #6
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    Re: Delete Saved Password in Terminal

    No, just tried that. It didn't work.
    It didn't just get saved automatically, I actually checked a "save this code" box. But I'm not sure what program it was that was saving it (remember that I was using ICE at the time).

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    Re: Delete Saved Password in Terminal

    So anyone else have an idea?
    Recap:
    It effects all of my shells (terminal, konsole, xterm).
    I was using Ice WM at the time.
    I have no passwords saved in seahorse.

  8. #8
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    Re: Delete Saved Password in Terminal

    Ok, as it turns out I just saved it for that key. If had just tried it again after generating a new key it would have been fine.
    Thanks everyone for your help.

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