How To Reset KWallet Password

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Submitted by sudheer on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 17:24

The problem: You fire a KDE application, the application requires a password to continue, the KWallet window pops up asking for its password. You try your frequently used passwords. None of them work.

This happened to me when I tried to open a password protected PDF document with Okular. I knew I never set the KWallet password on this computer.

The solution: To reset your KWallet password, delete the kwalllet directory.
Type this in your command line:

rm -rf ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet/

The next time KWallet window pops up, you can set your master password.

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