Change Webdav/Imap/Smtp passwords in Gnome Settings (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works to c/gnome@discuss.tchncs.de

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Hi everyone!

I love Gnome and its visual appeal but I hate how some easy tasks are difficult in it.

My email and cloud provider is advising a password change after an attended breach lately.

I've tried changing them in Agenda and Evolution but these are redirecting me to the general Gnome settings and I can't find a way to update the password without deleting and recreating the account.

Does anyone knows how to do this?

Before anyone asks me why I don't just use Thunderbird (which I do), it's because it wouldn't allow me to have my agenda in the Gnome notification place

If I could, I would happily ditch Agenda and Evolution, but it seems I can't if I want these things to be displayed there..

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[-] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I think it's probably easier to just remove the account and add it again. It's not very hard to do that, and in my experience it doesn't delete all your existing synced content or anything, it essentially just reauthenticates.

If you really want to try to manually change the password, I believe you may be able to do it by deleting the correct entry from the keyring. That might make GNOME ask you for a new password for that account, though I'm not 100% certain doing this won't mess up the whole account and force you to delete it to resolve it anyway.

If you want to risk it, you can use Seahorse to access the keyring (it's called "Passwords and Keys" in the menu), and look for the GOA entries.

They have cryptic account numbers listed on them, so you would then need to figure out which one corresponds with the account you want to change. The only place I know of where those are listed is in ~/.config/goa-1.0/accounts.conf, which will include their friendly name.

[-] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I've tried your method with Seahorse/Password and Keys and it created a prompt, but then nothing would happen once the password is entered. Thanks anyway.

In the end, I just deleted the accounts and recreated them. Luckily I had created a file with all the necessary infos otherwise I'd have wasted a lot of time.

I've tried to find a way to create a feature request on the Gnome site or on Github, but apparently Gnome doesn't allow that.

It's these small annoyances that would make me want to switch desktop even if I love how Gnome makes you work with many workspaces and you just use the touchpad to switch between them..

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