Re: Password problems

[Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca>]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:15:54 -0900
Siraaj Khandkar <sirconquer@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 16 Feb 2008, at 19:46, Frank McCormick wrote:
> >>
> >> It may also be that gksu saved the old password in keychain, and he
> >> set the keychain's password to be the same as the old password, and
> >> now it's just asking him for the password to the keychain.
> >>
> >
> >    That could be. I don't know. All I do know is GTK apps such as
> > Synaptic will only accept the old password.
> >
> 
> Run gnome-keyring-manager and clear the old password. Keyring itself  
> has a separate password to it, it will ask you for it on launch,  
> whether you want to change that is up to you, but just realize that  
> it is a separately set password from you user account password.


  No such animal on this machine---there is a gnome-keyring-daemon

Cheers

-- 
Frank