[ale] Gnome Keyring

[tom]

On Sat, 5 May 2007, Jim Moore wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how to retrieve the password for the default
> keyring?  Just as I was being asked to set it up for  the first time
> there was a big commotion around here and by the time I got back to it
> some hour and a half later, what I had started to enter was stored.
> Geriatric me I've not a clue as to what I had started to enter.
> Have done a "locate"  and found many many files in /usr/share and a few
> in /var.
> I'm hoping that if I can find the file where it is stored I can either
> view what was entered or enter a new password.

Wish I didn't know the feeling quite so well myself. What I did when I 
/lost/forgot/never conciously set/ the Gnome Keyring password was to 
simply delete the keyring subdirectory under the .gnome2 subdirectory. Not 
exactly elegant, I know, but I was able to get where I was going at least. 
Since you apparently were just setting things up for the first time, I 
guess you wouldn't lose too much just going back and starting over.

Hope this helps. Wish I knew of a more elegant approach for the situation.