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How to recover/reset forgotten Gnome Keyring Password? 

 **Enter password to unlock your login keyring**

The password that you use to log into your computer is no longer matches your log in keyring.

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Forevermore
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2 Answers2

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Click Applications

Click Accessories

Click Passwords and Encryption Keys

-or-

Press ALT+F2

Then type in seahorse

-then-

Right click Passwords: login

Select Change Password

-then-

Change the password to blank. This will allow autologin to use your wireless password, start remote desktop, etc.

Another way is to remove the old keystore.

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

reboot the computer sudo init 6and then on the first prompt to enter a new keyring password, i.e. when starting empathy or NetworkManager,simply press enter, a warning appears asking Use insecure storage?, press enter one more time. From now on, you won't be asked about passwords anymore. And yes, this is insecure; if you are paranoid, don't do it. enter enter

Edit: On newer versions of Ubuntu (21.04 in my case) the daemon and directory names seem to have changed:

killall -9 gnome-keyring-d
cd ~/.local/share/
rm -rf keyrings
Stéphane
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Suvasish Sarker
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From the Ubuntu help, it works

  1. Go to your Home folder by typing 'home' in the dash.
  2. Press Ctrl+H(or click View ▸ Show Hidden Files.)
  3. Double click on the folder .gnome2 or .local/share/keyrings in Ubuntu >= 14
  4. Double click on the folder called keyrings.
  5. Delete any files you find in the keyrings folder.
  6. Restart the computer.
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