I recently changed my password, using pwd and my root password using sudo pwd root. After that when I reboot, I am asked to enter my keyring password (my old password) at startup. I am guessing that is because the keyring was set to use my old personal password, and now they differ, and the keyring …

Same principle as mentioned here: [image] Gnome-keyring password is lost Support Make sure to read this first, so you understand how it works https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Keyring This should help you out further …

Well, I haven’t forgotten my old password, I basically just want to change my keyring password? Isn’t there a way to do that without installing the GUI (seahorse?)?

The second link i provided above explains how to do that. See the accepted answer and disregard the seahorse one …

But that links to the same page that I gave in my question. My question was about the last paragraph on that page?

[image] Hultan: But that links to the same page that I gave in my question See the second link :slight_smile:

I rebooted again, and this time it did not ask for the old password. I can only assume that, it asked for my old password the first time, to change the password for the keyring to my new password!? So it was just me being impatient, I guess. Anyway, the problem seems to be solved…

works for me, removed my keyrings!

Changing password for keyring

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anon89812132 21 November 2020 11:28 2

Same principle as mentioned here: