Re: [Evolution] Passwords

[andré <andr55 laposte net>]

Le 2018-04-09 à 02:35, David a écrit :
> On Mon, 2018-04-09 at 05:54 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > On Sun, 2018-04-08 at 20:09 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2018-04-08 at 19:52 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2018-04-08 at 17:38 +0100, David wrote:
> > > > > I've loaded seahorse onto my desk PC and it works fine, I cannot get
> > > > > seahorse on to my laptop, unable to update was part of the reason I
> > > > > replaced the hard drive and started again.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've got the old laptop hard drive, as a secondary drive, working in
> > > > > my desk PC.
> > > > >
> > > > > Where should I go looking, with seahorse, to find the passwords?
> > > >
> > > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2018-April/msg00020.html
> > >
> > > The problem for the OP much likely is, that the OP runs a user session
> > > from the primary hard drive. The $HOME of the user on the secondary hard
> > > drive is not shown when running seahorse. One way to work around this,
> > > would be to change fstab entries, to mount /home/ from the secondary
> > > drive. This could have a few pitfalls. Is /home/ of the install of the
> > > primary disk on a separated partition or part of the root directory?
> > > When /home/ from the secondary partition is used, some software might
> > > transform data of apps for usage with the installed versions and the
> > > data might not be backwards compatible anymore and so on and so on.
> >
> > Ah, thanks for way better understanding the problem than I did! :)
> >
> > In that case I'd rather investigate why the OP cannot get Seahorse onto
> > their laptop and what "unable to update" means exactly. Which might be
> > off-topic for the scope of this Evolution mailing list.
> >
> > andre
>
> A little bit of the background, I was unhappy with some Linux
> distributions having old versions of programs, Evolution being one of
> them.
>
> After some research and trying various distributions I settled on
> Manjaro. I was very pleased with this and loaded it onto my desk PC and
> my laptop. Then one of the updates stopped my desk PC from booting. I
> had to extract the files from the hard disk manually to continue
> working. Evolution was the worst problem because I could not do a back
> up, but I managed to get it working on the new distribution.
>
> I then decided not to allow my laptop to upgrade, since then I've tried
> to upgrade Manjaro or add new utilities without success.
>
> Hence I decided to install a new SSD into my laptop on to which I've
> loaded Debian 8. This could give me another problem, the Manjaro backup
> was made with Evolution 3.22, the Debian 8 version is 3.12. I might have
> to look at upgrading Evolution, I don't want to go through the hassle of
> rebuilding Evolution again.
>
> Looking where the passwords are stored, in the shadow files, I've copied
> the shadow files from the Manjaro laptop disk and I'll try adding them
> into another working system to see if I can read them with Seahorse.
>
> I know Patrick is not going to like me saying this but all but one of
> the passwords I've got written down. I just need to recover that G mail
> password. I've tried accessing G mail, but without the password I'm
> stumped.
>
> David.
A suggestion :
You could try putting all your passwords into a file with strong 
password protection and a very obscure name.  Of course it is always 
easy to forget putting a password or two in such a file.

--
(another) André