Keychain admin

[R.L. Grigg]

On Jun 27, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Patrick Gallagher wrote:
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> 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?
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> 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.

Sounds like this is by design, but its ... unexpected.
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> To fix it, you can change your keychain password to match in  
> Keychain Access in /Applications/Utilities.
Done
Thanks
Russ

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