Hello again all,

Seems trouble just follows those trying to do good things

I'm using Linux Mint 20.2 Cin 5.0.7

I just did an install of Proton's vpn deb package, for their VPN Linux Mint app - that was a learning curve . . . .

When I went to launch it I got the following Authentication error:
The password you use to log in to your computer no longer matches that of your login keyring Oh no, trouble from my past has returned to me again!

So I started searching on this error - found out that sometime in my Linux past I changed my user loging password (because I forgot or lost my org), and the sys wants the original one for launching this foreign package, which I no longer have. Oh boy, this seems bad.

Is there any step by step work around/fix for this?

Thanks again,

probably this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/6528...yring-password

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How strange ... I routinely arrange for the two passwords to be different, no matter what sort of computer I use which provides such a facility. Why is this considered to be a "problem?" Much less an "error?"

Well that's a very big question... seems there is a lot going on when one get's this type of error (keyring) and in all my searches there is no definitive "this is what's wrong and this is what needs done" answer. Where do the Linux programmers hang out? LOL

This feels very 'Linux' to me - you do not read about an possible trouble until it's to late and it's grabbed you by the pants. You search your trouble and only then do you read "be careful, don't do that unless you have this, or I wouldn't do that, etc. . . .

Something is screwed up with the system's keyring (either the app or the data in the app).
I cannot even find one definitive answer as to what controls the keyring - I read it's a cinnamon issue, another place it's a dependencies issue (KWallet or gnome-keyring)?.

I do see that throughout the kernel versions keyring errors do come up. But how to deal with them is still alluding me. And with most things, errors happen because I've done something that I read to do, something to use the machine in a more functional way.

But I'm still researching as I get the time, so there is hope

Did you not click the link provided by pan64?
It's not an answer to your exact question/problem; but if I understand you correctly, you don't use the keyring and simply removing it could be enough.
Why don't you try what the accepted answer tells you to, and report back, in full detail?

@ondoho - yes I did, however I needed to do my own research on deleting my keyrings and resetting a new keyring + password.

- "just do this", is exactly how I got into this mess in the first place. I need perspective.

I did delete my old keyring, and set a new one, after reading up on keyring, root pass and account pass issues - https://itsfoss.com is the best resource I've found for this info

This did solve my keyring request for a password I no longer know issue, and I'm very thankful for the link that put me on the right direction.

Thanks all~

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