I’ve forgotten my Keyring password. How can I reset it and create a new one?
A keyring is a Gnome thing. If it were Plasma related, it would be called “wallet” or kwallet" instead. I am not sure how to change that outside of Gnome, or if it can be done from the commandline. IIRC, one can use an application called “seahorse” to change it.
Normally, the password would be your user login password here as set up during the OS install, but that may depend on when/how Gnome’s keyring was added.
If this is a KDE wallet ( the default one is usually called kdewallet), then you can change its password from System Settings, Search for “wallet” (or even “keyring”) to find it, then click the “open wallet manager” to find the option to change the password.
Regardless of which password wallet you’re using – the KDE KWallet or, the GNOME Keyring or, the Apple Wallet –
- Always, always, always – maintain a backup of the wallets contents.
Please be aware that, the backup should never, ever, be held on a networked device – including a Cloud – which is usually only a networked device owned by someone else.
- The backups need to be held on at least one removable device which is held by you in a safe and secure location.
The reason is very simple –
- If the password needed to unlock the wallet is ever lost, forgotten or, corrupted the only possible recovery is to delete and then recreate the wallet.
No, it’s different – I want to set up the Google Calendar in KOrganiser, and then I’m asked to unlock the Keyring.
I can’t remember creating a password for that keyring.
Do you happen to have the GNOME Keyring package (upstream URL: <https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeKeyring>) installed?
If I recall correctly, the current KWallet backend (Secret Service??) can also use the GNOME Keyring … 
If this is the GNOME keyring prompt from KOrganizer, the old password cannot be recovered. You can reset the local wallet, but that deletes stored secrets.
Close apps using it, back up the folder, then move it aside:
mv ~/.local/share/keyrings ~/.local/share/keyrings.old
Log out and back in. The next prompt will create a new login keyring. Saved mail, Wi-Fi, and calendar passwords will need to be entered again.
If the prompt belongs to KWallet, use System Settings > KDE Wallet and reset the wallet there. Check which wallet is active before removing anything.