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I run Ubuntu<\/a> (Hardy at the moment) as my main desktop.\u00a0 Overall its been a good experience.\u00a0 The update mechanism has worked well even migrating from one release (Fiesty) to another via the update manager.\u00a0 For the must have windows apps (iTunes) I run VMWare Player<\/a> and a virtualized WindowsXP image.<\/p>\n I tend to suspend my desktop (vs. hibernate or full shutdown cycle) as it gives me nearly instant on access.\u00a0 From time to time a kernel update will cause suspend to fail, the most spectacular being today when my machine would no longer complete its POST<\/a>.\u00a0 The solution was to disconnect the power cord for a minute and let the capacitors discharge (a little led on the mainboard went out after 30 seconds) and then it booted fine.<\/p>\n Look for Ubuntu 8.10 – Intrepid Ibex to be released in just over a week.\u00a0 Linux isn’t for everyone, but as a developer its a nice desktop environment.<\/p>\n So I do regularly change my password, its a good habit to have.\u00a0 In some cases, it makes sure that I at least once in a while log into the system I have access to – otherwise I might lose access to a remote system and not find out until I need to do that DNS update.<\/p>\n There is a facilty called the GNOME Keyring<\/a>.\u00a0 It hangs onto your access credentials so you’re not constantly entering passwords (for example, every time you re-open the email client).\u00a0 Of course, the thing that holds onto your credentials, needs a password to keep that data safe – but you can link it to your login password.\u00a0 How to do this is covered in the blog posting Automatically unlocking the default GNOME Keyring<\/a>.<\/p>\n You may need to delete the previously stored keyring if your user password and your keyring password were not the same.<\/p>\n This is also the same sad procedure I was using to re-synchronize my keyring with my user password when it was time to change my password.\u00a0 Very annoying that there didn’t seem to be a way to just change it.<\/p>\n Well, it turns out that there is.\u00a0 The Seahorse<\/a> application lets you do this.\u00a0 I found the following blog posting by Ivan Torres<\/a> that shows you how to do this.\u00a0 Now changing the password is accomplished by Applications -> Accessories -> Passwords and Encryption Keys, then Edit->Preferences, select default and click on the Change Unlock Password button.<\/p>\n Easy right?\u00a0 Well, not really.\u00a0 As is, it works smoothly up to the point where you want to change your password – then its dig around until you remember (or figure out) how to change your password, or simply blow the keyring away and start over.\u00a0 Ideally, it’d be nice to have a password change facility that did your user password and default keyring in one shot, and I hope it will be installed in \/usr\/bin\/passwd.<\/p>\n Linux, you get what you pay for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I run Ubuntu (Hardy at the moment) as my main desktop.\u00a0 Overall its been a good experience.\u00a0 The update mechanism has worked well even migrating from one release (Fiesty) to another via the update manager.\u00a0 For the must have windows apps (iTunes) I run VMWare Player and a virtualized WindowsXP image. I tend to suspend … Continue reading “Ubuntu and the default keyring”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}rm ~\/.gnome2\/keyrings\/default.keyring<\/code><\/p>\n