How to change a stored password

Yuya Nishihara yuya at tcha.org
Wed Feb 24 14:49:00 UTC 2016


On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:35:10 +0100, Roland Schmitz via Mercurial wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 23. Februar 2016, 22:34:05 schrieb Yuya Nishihara:
> > So the program would be ksshaskpass. I don't know why you couldn't find your
> > password in KWallet, but you can try another graphical frontend. For
> > example,
> When i call ksshaskpass i see:
> 
> rsch at mars:~$ ksshaskpass  
> Pass a valid window to KWallet::Wallet::openWallet(). 
> abcrsch at mars:~$ 
> 
> I can enter any pwd i want nohting happens. Here i entered "abc" which you can 
> see in front of my system prompt. If i enter the rigth pwd or not everythings 
> stays the same.

Sorry, what did you get from that?

I told you that the SSH password prompt would be handled by ksshaskpass, so
you could try another ssh-askpass program to make sure the problem resides in
ksshaskpass (or KWallet).

BTW, is it a password for password/challenge-response authentication, or a
password for local private key?



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