Where in the phone filesystem are settings saved? I've lost my ADB backup password and simply want to delete it. If it affects other settings that won't matter too much.
I will be interfacing the filesystem through a root shell.
Answer
In my stock Android 4.2.1 the file responsible for holding Desktop backup password seems to be /data/backup/pwhash.
I took a backup of it, renamed it, restarted the device, and the password was reset to empty. Now I could create a new password from the Settings easily.
In CM12, I had to rename two files, namely pwhash and pwversion, and everything went well after a reboot.
Note: I noticed file modification in /data/ to proceed and ultimately reach my conclusion, which of course works here.
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