Comments on: Mac OS X’s Keychain management: definitely not right

By: ssp

ssp — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Same answer as before, I suppose.

QuickTime changed, the applications you mention link to Quicktime. Thus their prebinding will be updated as well.

I guess googling around for ‘prebinding’ will reveal some more detailed information.

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I guess it’s a case of technical issues getting in the way of the UI.

By: Karl and Nancy Stoll

Karl and Nancy Stoll — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Keychain headaches ongoing here with no end in sight …
The following statement in the the article The Mac OS X Keychain Service
is not true, I am so very afraid. “Users can have multiple distinct keychains, but every user starts out with a single keychain, considered that user’s default keychain. The name and password for this default keychain is the same as the user’s login name and password. This allows for that keychain to be automatically unlocked upon login.”
My husband’s mac will not allow him to use the keychain. He has never done anything to it, but it is locked. His logon password does not open it. We are at wit’s end.
We tried Keychain First Aid which did not help.
We tried to reset the user & pw using the os X install cd and that failed to help either.

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Did you try simply trashing the keychain file itself, logging out and logging back in?

The file is in his home library, inside the “Keychains” folder.

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