Re: [gnukeyring-discuss] problem of password recognition

[Jochen H. <jo...@gn...>]

On Tuesday, Nov 27 2001 you wrote:
> I used a palm pilot IIIe with a Palm OS V 3.3 and a gnukeyring
> version 1.0. I recently try to change the password of the palm
> security module but it seems that this change affect too the
> password of the keyring software. Since this change, I could not
> reach all the information stored in the keyring module because it
> do not recognize anymore my password. What can I do ? I have
> important information stored in this module.

The easiest way is to restore from a backup :)  If that doesn't work 
or if your backup is too old,  I have a hacked up version of keyring 
that will work around this problem.

The problem is that keyring stores the password hash in a secret 
record with index 0.  When this record is removed or just moved at a 
different entry the keyring will not accept the valid password 
anymore.  PalmOS may make some weired things with these secret 
entries when changing password.

Martin:  I think the password hash should be moved to the AppInfo 
block directly after the category information.  I have a patch that 
does this, are you interested in this change?  I still need to 
thoroughly test it.  However, it changes the database format, so it 
is probably a post 1.1 thing.