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[ubuntu] Messed up a password, now can't install applications.

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http://ubuntuforums.org – (Bear with me, linux-noob here) Using Ubuntu 12.04 on a fresh install. I had gone into the User Accounts, unlocked, set no password with auto-login. Also went to Passwords, changed pass on the default keyring to be blank and selected Use Un-Safe Storage. These ( aside from cosmetic ) are the only changes I have made. Now I'm going through the software centre to try and install something, it asks me for a password, I have no password to put in, if I leave it blank it won't accept it and if I put the password I set for my user during installation, it won't take it either as I had cleared i (Hardware)

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Submitted by xskl on 09/20/2012

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Dear all, As stated in the following link, a window will popup for the user to input the keyring password when it is autologin: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu...question/85771: If you are autologin'ing to your machine, gdm uses su to become your user, without ever using the password.

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tlinsley wrote:You can bypass that annoyance by setting the keyring password to blank.  That can be done through the seahorse application as shown here: http://nullroute.eu.org/~grawity/gnome- … login.htmlAlternatively, delete /home/username/.gnome2/keyrings.

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