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Frantisek
Asked: 2011-11-12 12:24:08 +0800 CST

How to completely reset/erase the keyring?

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Something happened to my keyring, I think chrome asked for a new password to create a new keyring and erased the old one, but now the process repeats. I save a few passwords and then it resets it again.

How do I completely swipe/remove/erase the keyring, so that this problem stops?

keyrings

3 Answers

  1. On Ubuntu 13.10 or later:

    rm ~/.local/share/keyrings -fr

    Next time, when setup your keyring question appears just don't setup any.

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  2. Best Answer

    Open ~/.gnome2/keyrings/, remove all the files there that end with .keyring.

    Next time keyring shows up for any reason do not enter a password for it and verify that you want to use unsafe storage. Keyring will still save your passwords and will not ask you again for a password.

    Another option is to disable keyring so the deamon does not run but then you wont have keyring saving your passwords for you common programs.

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  3. A way I liked is the old way and it worked:

    Press Alt+Ctrl+T.

    Then, the terminal opens up, and then in there enter:

    passwd


joeri@joeri-NC10:~$ passwd
Nieuw UNIX-wachtwoord invoeren: 
Nieuw UNIX-wachtwoord herhalen: 
passwd: wachtwoord is met succes aangepast
joeri@joeri-NC10:~$ sudo emacs
[sudo] password for joeri: 
joeri@joeri-NC10:~$ ^C
joeri@joeri-NC10:~$
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