Disabling gnome-keyring

For future reference, in case someone land here, follow this good tutorial:

http://davestechsupport.com/blog/200...sword-keyring/

to make it short:

1. Open up your Home Folder by clicking Places>Home Folder
2. Press CTRL-H (or click View>Show Hidden Files)
3. Find a folder called .gnome2 (it has a period at the beginning of the name) and open it by double clicking on it
4. Inside of the .gnome2 folder, there is another folder called keyrings. Open it up.
5. Delete any files you find within the keyrings folder
6. Restart the computer

When prompted for a Keyring Password again, leave it blank and click CREATE

Thanks to David Steinlage

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Originally Posted by ElQanah

1. Open up your Home Folder by clicking Places>Home Folder
2. Press CTRL-H (or click View>Show Hidden Files)
3. Find a folder called .gnome2 (it has a period at the beginning of the name) and open it by double clicking on it
4. Inside of the .gnome2 folder, there is another folder called keyrings. Open it up.
5. Delete any files you find within the keyrings folder

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Easier to do that with terminal one-liner:

Code:

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$ rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/*

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by ElQanah

1. Restart the computer

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... and, while you're in the terminal, provided you're in group=Administrator, you can do

Code:

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$ sudo shutdown -r now

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by ElQanah

When prompted for a Keyring Password again, leave it blank and click CREATE

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Hmm ... I'm running 10.10=Maverick, and ...

The bad news: I get no such button: the only ones on the dialog are "OK" and "Cancel". The good news: after doing

1. $ rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/*
2. $ sudo shutdown -r now
3. (after restart) Login.
4. Enter network key in NetworkManager dialog.
5. Hit button=Cancel in keyring dialog.

I get no further keyring prompts until I change password (with Administration>Users and Groups). But what I really want is to disable gnome-keyring :-(

I would really appreciate information on how to remove this abomination too. Going the GUI way doesn't seem to solve the problem, although to make it less annoying, you can click on Details whenever it shows its ugly head and choose to have it bother you less. Not unlike the comfort you get from only having to put up with inlaws over holidays.

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Originally Posted by tlroche

Easier to do that with terminal one-liner:

Code:

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$ rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/*

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... and, while you're in the terminal, provided you're in group=Administrator, you can do

Code:

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$ sudo shutdown -r now

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Hmm ... I'm running 10.10=Maverick, and ...

The bad news: I get no such button: the only ones on the dialog are "OK" and "Cancel". The good news: after doing

1. $ rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/*
2. $ sudo shutdown -r now
3. (after restart) Login.
4. Enter network key in NetworkManager dialog.
5. Hit button=Cancel in keyring dialog.

I get no further keyring prompts until I change password (with Administration>Users and Groups). But what I really want is to disable gnome-keyring :-(

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Thank you , Thank you, Thank you.
Solved my problem.
After i disliked unity and gnome3, I installed KDE in 11.04. But after restart, got this keyring problem, and couldn't log into desktop. Just got terminal running, and with your guide, it's working.
Just that firefox has ugly font in its menus, but thats another problem
Thank you, once again.

My solution to this problem was unique and original. YAY!!! After trying everyone elses solution and just making the gnome desktop worse, I finally discovered that it was vino-server that was loading the gnome-keyring password prompt thing. Not a function of the gnome-keyring itself. So I went to http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vino/2.32/ and got the source code to vino and compiled it with the ./configure --disable-gnome-keyring switch. I hoped I spelled all that right. a ./configure --help | list will list the correct switch to use. But it says --enable and not --disable but disable works. But I had to install the gnome-keyring-1 development libraries anyway even though it didn't use them. So anyways after I compiled vino and installed it, oh yeah, even though I did a make install the vino-server binary didn't get installed. A fight to the bitter end. So I had to manually copy that out of the source directory and I choose to put it into /usr/local/lib dir and make a symbolic link from the old vino-server, locate vino-server will tell ya where it is, something like /usr/lib/vino I think, to the new vino-sever. Rebooted. Had to turn remote desktop on again, and... and...

IT WORKED!!! No gnome-keyring password prompt when I log in with vnc to my :0 desktop.

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