Comments on: Reset GNOME Keyring Password on Ubuntu

By: anant saraswat

anant saraswat — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:57:21 +0000

thanks…..for method1 , it works

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:13:16 +0000

Thanks for the post, really helped me out!

By: Dominik

Dominik — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:45:38 +0000

Thanks a lot! I had to delete my existing keyring and define a new one.

Afterwards it worked

By: Gurtej Kanwar

Gurtej Kanwar — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:58:42 +0000

Just thought I should add, what happend to me was that I changed my login password, so then every time I logged in, it said that the keyring password and login password didn’t match, so I had to type it in each time, which was pretty annoying. In this case, you can go to Applications > Accessories > Passwords and Encryption Keys > Passwords tab, then Right Click on the keyring that is the problem and click Change Password. It asks you for the old password and then what you want to change it to. Obviously, this only works if you actually know the old password, but I still thought I’d mention it here.

By: Deby Novitz

Deby Novitz — Thu, 27 May 2010 00:20:33 +0000

Thank you this was the best solution and of course the absolute easiest.

By: Irene

Irene — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:07:14 +0000

Thank you, thank you. I spent hours looking in the forums and reset the password in root, which didn’t clear the problem. Finally ended up here and in 1 min it was solved. I just wasn’t game to totally delete the password keyring.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:51:10 +0000

Thanks for your post it came in handy while I was helping my nephew with his Ubuntu computer. He had changed his login password then forgot it. After I walked him through resetting his login he could not log into Keyring.