Change default keyring password?

[aquascrotum]

Since upgrading to 10.04 I've tried to set up my empathy account - as part of this process I'm prompted for the "default keyring" password.

As far as I was concerned that password was always previously the same as my login account password, but its not being recognised as correct.

How can i find out what my keyring password is, and how can i change it?

Thanks.

[inameiname]

I'm looking into this as well, but for Evolution Mail. I've learned that your default keyring password is the same as your user password when you first install, but when you change your user password to whatever it is, the default keyring one remains the old one. And so far I've looked into two solutions:

To delete keyring entirely, and then can put in new passwords:

# killall -9 gnome-keyring-daemon
$ rm -fr ~/.gnome2/keyrings

or

"This is handled by right clicking on the word login in the encryptions and keyrings password window. This open a menu with the option to change password. Yes it's a little bit hard to find, if you don't know it's there."


I know the first one works, but I'm not sure if there lies a security issue. And as to the second one, I'm not entirely sure it works with Lucid. Though I haven't checked yet.


Oh, and regardless, I think you can find out what your keyring password is by checking out 'Passwords and Encryption Keys' under the 'Accessories' tab.

[aquascrotum]

Solved.

In Passwords & Encryoptions Keys manager (Applications>Accessories) - right clicked on Login Password and used selection "set as default".

[mcsenna]

H, I could use some help with this pesky keyring thing too. I tried the command you listed but the thing stillkeeps rearing its ugly head. I could not find any login password to right click on in the accessories/passwords folder either. Anyone have any ideas here?
By the way if I keep hitting "deny" over and over it eventually goes away.

[inameiname]

This is the easiest way to reset or delete it. Just go to Accessories > Passwords and Encryption Keyrings and then right click on the word "Passwords: login" and then you can either 'delete' or 'change password'. Obviously, I'd change it to the same as your Ubuntu user password. You just have to remember to do this every time you change your user password.

[aquascrotum]

This is the easiest way to reset or delete it. Just go to Accessories > Passwords and Encryption Keyrings and then right click on the word "Passwords: login" and then you can either 'delete' or 'change password'. Obviously, I'd change it to the same as your Ubuntu user password. You just have to remember to do this every time you change your user password.

Surely though you need to know what the default keyring password is prior to changing it - this was my problem originally posted. If the tool I posted that copies your login password to your keyring password doesnt work then you'd be stumped...

[inameiname]

Oh I see. Unless you've changed the default keyring password before, it should be the same as your first user password you used when you installed Ubuntu. I guess if you don't know it or remember it, then you should just delete it entirely, either with the right click way I mentioned or use the terminal :

# killall -9 gnome-keyring-daemon
$ rm -fr ~/.gnome2/keyrings

[mahela007]

Since upgrading to 10.04 I've tried to set up my empathy account - as part of this process I'm prompted for the "default keyring" password.

As far as I was concerned that password was always previously the same as my login account password, but its not being recognised as correct.

How can i find out what my keyring password is, and how can i change it?

Thanks.

I had a similar problem after upgrading to 10.04. (I upgraded via the alternate installation CD). Before this, when I was using Ubuntu 9.10, the Keyring password and the login password were the same. However, after upgrading, the keyring password has changed. (And here's something really spooky.. it's changed to another password that I use regularly.)

[rhdinah]

May I just add to this [getting] stagnant thread ...

I'm afraid it's hidden, under-the-covers, user-unfriendly interfaces like this that keeps Linux in the geek-only category. Whatever extra security it offers is far outweighed by the issues and hardships it creates.

[mahela007]

I agree.