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Deremember remembered root-pw?

Asked by Johan Kröckel on 2010-06-30

I have an activated root account. So sometimes I need to enter the root password in gnome with the option to remeber password for the session. The problem is, as I only suspend my laptop at night, a session and the remembered root password can last quite long.
Is it possible to make gnome forget the password?

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Last query:: 2010-06-30

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said on 2010-06-30:

You shouldn't be using the root password, there is absolutely no reason to use it if you are a member of the admin group which your first user will be a member of.

This will help:
http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/07/06/clearing-or-resetting-the-gnome-keyring/

I also suggest STRONGLY that you run this command to redisable the root account:
sudo usermod -p '!' root

Ubuntu does NOT support people using root for anything and we advise using sudo and gksudo (or kdesu for KDE).

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Johan Kröckel (jnkl) said on 2010-06-30:

First: I want to use the root account and I don't want to discuss rationale. But it's possible to install Ubuntu with an activated root account.
Second: I don't want to delete the whole Gnome Keyring. I'm just trying to delete one key from the session keyring and the session keyring is, according to the Gnome documentation [1], never stored to the harddisk. I think some versions ago, one could view/edit the session keyring in seahorse.

[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/platform-overview/stable/keyring.html.en