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

Craig Taylor ctalkobt at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 13:55:04 EDT 2008


I'll validate as I'm not at home [ $WORK (no need for VPN here)] but it
looks like gconf-editor was what I was looking for.

Thanks!

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Matthew Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com
> wrote:

> 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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