Keychain admin

[Patrick Gallagher]

On 6/26/07, R.L. Grigg <newslists at autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
> My OSX user account was created with password XXXX. I changed it to
> YYYY in System Preferences. Now every 5? 10? minutes Safari keeps
> asking me again for my password from the keychain. Why it needs it
> I'll never know, but I have to give it my old password XXXX, not my
> current password YYYY. Someone told me to blow away my keychain but
> I'd like to know why it does this?


Your account password and keychain password are no longer in sync. When you
reset a password from another account or use the reset password utility on
the CD, then the keychain password for that user does not get changed. The
only way a password change will also update the keychain is if the user
changes their own password from System Prefs while they are logged in.

To fix it, you can change your keychain password to match in Keychain Access
in /Applications/Utilities.



-- 
Patrick Gallagher
Emory College Computing Support