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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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    Sounds like you changed your login password for your computer, but you didn't change the password for your keyring. Try using your old computer login password to access your keyring, then change the keyring password to the new one so you don't have this problem. You can do this by pushing Super, then typing "Passwords and Keys". I'll move this to an answer, if this is the case. – Brandon Bertelsen Sep 21 '12 at 05:25
  • Applications -> Utilities -> Passwords and Keys then Right-click on Passwords -> login Select “Change Password” – Shayan Sep 22 '19 at 22:23

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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
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    but what if i don't remember the original password anymore??? – Vipin Verma Sep 21 '12 at 05:34
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    if you want to reset your password or just forgot your password you can follow this: link – Suvasish Sarker Sep 21 '12 at 05:46
  • it is not working.. it displays the message "give root password for maintenance" when i try to drop to root shell prompt. What shall i do now? – Vipin Verma Sep 21 '12 at 06:01
  • i used sudo su - root in the normal terminal and then followed the commands to mount and change the pwd subsequemtly, and it worked :D – Vipin Verma Sep 21 '12 at 06:04
  • i changed the pwd, but it still says the same old message>> Enter password to unlock your login keyring and the new password that i just set is incorrect according to it – Vipin Verma Sep 21 '12 at 06:08
  • I don't know what went wrong but you can try this.. 
    `killall -9 gnome-keyring-daemon`

`rm -fr ~/.gnome2/keyrings`

    and then on the first prompt to enter a new keyring password, i.e. when starting empathy or NetworkManager,simply press , a warning appears asking 'Use insecure storage?', press 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.

     – Suvasish Sarker Sep 21 '12 at 08:40
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    A note that on later Ubuntu versions (>=14.x), the keyring file is in ~/.local/share/keyrings – Brett May 23 '16 at 06:54
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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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