[ale] Gnome Keyring changing to gnupg

[Scott Castaline]

tom wrote:
> On Sat, 5 May 2007, Jim Moore wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone tell me how to retrieve the password for the default
>> keyring?  Just as I was being asked to set it up for  the first time
>> there was a big commotion around here and by the time I got back to it
>> some hour and a half later, what I had started to enter was stored.
>> Geriatric me I've not a clue as to what I had started to enter.
>> Have done a "locate"  and found many many files in /usr/share and a few
>> in /var.
>> I'm hoping that if I can find the file where it is stored I can either
>> view what was entered or enter a new password.
> 
> Wish I didn't know the feeling quite so well myself. What I did when I 
> /lost/forgot/never conciously set/ the Gnome Keyring password was to 
> simply delete the keyring subdirectory under the .gnome2 subdirectory. Not 
> exactly elegant, I know, but I was able to get where I was going at least. 
> Since you apparently were just setting things up for the first time, I 
> guess you wouldn't lose too much just going back and starting over.
> 
> Hope this helps. Wish I knew of a more elegant approach for the situation.
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I ran gpg --gen-key created my keys etc, etc. I went to digitally sign a 
file and when I entered my passphrase I got back Pass phrase check 
failed. I know I entered in the correct password as I had written it 
down. I tried several variations of the password, then I tried just 
deleting everything in .gnupg and reran gpg. Got the same results. Then 
just for the hell of it I deleted .gnupg subdir again and then and then 
did an rpm --eval "%_gpg_name" and I got back the info I had originally 
entered when I created the key. What else do I need to do to remove 
myself so that I can start from scratch again? I think I had a brainfart 
when I did it the first time. I have never before forgotten a password, 
until now, or did I?