[TriLUG] Resetting VPN Password in Ubuntu / Missing gnome-keyring-manager

[Matthew Pusateri]

If I'm not mistaken, NetworkManager stores this in Gconf, so with the  
Gconf editor, you can delete the entry for that VPN connection and  
recreate it.  Or at least I was able to do that in the past, ymmv.

Matt P.

On Aug 30, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Craig Taylor wrote:

> Apparently the gnome-keyring-manager is missing in the latest  
> Ubuntu ...
> which is causing me problems trying to force my VPN to forget my old
> password so I can enter the new one.
>
> 1) Does anyone know how to manually do this? (I'm using nm- 
> applet-0.6.6
> also).
>
> 2) Google search shows that apparently, I'm not the only one having  
> this
> issue yet others in response seem to indicate that they're not  
> having any
> issues with the package being installed.  I suspect it may be an  
> issue of
> apt/sources.list not being configured properly. As such, mine is:
>
> ----
> myhost:/etc/apt$ cat sources.list | grep -v ^# | grep -v ^$
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main  
> restricted
> universe multiverse
> deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
> ----
>
> As is usually the case with Google-fu searches for me - they show  
> other
> individuals having the same issue but no responses that actually  
> resolve the
> issue. :-(
>
> Thanks,
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