using evolution - what is "default key ring"
 

Every time I reboot (kernel update ...) I need to restart evolution as my mail server.
It prompts me for my password (OK) and then it says I need to enter the password for the "default key ring". I have no clue what that is.

I have succeeded in removing the second prompt and using evolution properly just be removing keyring files in /tmp:

rm -rf /tmp/keyring*

I did not like doing this as I had no clue why the keyring was there, but it worked.

Can anyone tell me why this is happening?

Oh yea - using Fedora 7 and latest updates online using yum.

Keyring is a password manager which keeps all your passwords you use in Nautilus.
At 1st prompt, it asks for a keyring password to configure. Later, it stores all other passwords and asks only the keyring password each time you try to access something in nautilus.

If you happened to forgot what you had entered earlier as your keyring password, then install "gnome-keyring-manager" which will help you I hope. The KDE equivalent is KDE-Wallet manager.

I have no idea about the /tmp/keyring*, if you are unsure about the consequences of deleting a file, then dont delete just rename the file and see if it works.


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Yes you are quite right about deleting (I did move them to a subdir and tested).

I installed gnome-keyring-manager but do not see anything about it in the man pages after the install. I assume that I need to do something to initialize it for me "the user". I looked also in the menus but see nothing new.

Thanks for the advice and hope I don't see this one again.

gnome-keyring-manager is a graphical tool, and normally such tools are invoked with this type of command:

#gnome-keyring-manager

Give it a try or google for it.

Well, I down loaded and installed gnome-keyring-manager. When I first brought it up - it was impotent as it wanted a keyring (I had removed the directory in /tmp).

So I eventually rebooted the machine and VOILA - a new directory exists (/tmp/keyring-Z8PX1Q) and has a file named socket of type socket in it.

I brought up evolution again and now it will not let me in till I unlock the keyring and supply the right password.

the gnome-keyring-manager agrees with evolution - it too needs the key to the locked keyring. I tried my own password and root's password and a few more -like my email password - this keyring file has a lock that I have no idea how to unlock since I don't know the password.

I can remove the directory to get both evolution to work (then evolution is happy), but the gnome-keyring-manager program will do nothing unless the directory is there (and if it is, I don't have the key to use it).

Is there someplace I can find the key - using the command with --help-all was not useful. I looked up keyring files in google and they appear mostly linked to pgp which I don't have (do have gnupg but did not run it yet).

I can create a new keyring using the tool but I cannot for the life of me figure how to get past evolution which insists on the "default keyring password" - which I have no clue about.

I did quite a bit off googling and found lots of write-ups on removing the default keyword - they all appear quite old as there in no ~/.gnome2/keyrings/default.keyring file or anything that looked like that.

The only thing that works is to delete the /tmp/keyringXXX file and then I can use mail. I suspect this is a WRONG solution but it is the only way to get evolution to work. I just cannot guess what password it might want for the default. I have tried every one I can think of.