Support for Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS is winding down and I’d like to upgrade. I think it wise to make a backup of my personal files beforehand. However, due to a network/server reconfiguration the address of my NAS backup folder on my LAN has changed. DejaDup Backups keeps popping up a notification saying that I need to enter my password…but there is no requester to enter my credentials, and I don’t know where they might be stored in the file system. The access log on my NAS shows repeated login attempts rejected for invalid credentials, so I know that I can get through if I can only update my expletive deleted password. What’s my next step?
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Hello Eric,
can you try opening the application yourself instead of waiting for a backup (type “deja” in your ubuntu main menu search field if you need to find it)? This should open a user interface with tabs like overview and restore and a burger menu (a button with three horizontal lines). The burger menu should have “settings” which should contain the credentials.
Please note: My system is in German so the labels are translated by me and might not match exactly.
Thanks, but that doesn’t help. All that gets me is the Backups front end. There’s a “Preferences” dialog where I can enter the address of the network server, but no way to enter or edit credentials.
Deja Dup uses GNOME’s networking code for non-cloud backup locations. So we store credentials in the same place GNOME does, which is usually a user-session secrets storage owned by gnome-keyring.
You can see (and delete) the stored passwords using an app like “Passwords and Keys” or “Key Rack”.
I agree GNOME in general should have an easier way of resetting that information. Maybe Deja Dup could help with a “reset access” button like we have for cloud accounts…
I’m on Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS, and the only thing I can find close to “Passwords and Keys” is the KDE Wallet…which has no entries for Backups, DejaDup, or Gnome. So no help there, yet.
Ahh… yeah KDE uses KWallet for that I think. The passwords weren’t in there?
I’m not 100% where glib put these networking passwords in KDE then. I would have thought KWallet…
Actually, 22.04’s version of KWallet doesn’t support the freedesktop Secrets interface. So I wouldn’t expect the passwords to be able to be saved at all…
Maybe glib does something custom in that case and stores them in a local encrypted file… I’d have to do some research, but I’m busy this week - it maybe that is enough to search around with.
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