> On Mar 19, 2017, at 10:39 AM, Fred Thiel <fth...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > My iMac running SnowLeopard 10.6 asked me for my Keychain password. The > menulet isn't even showing up in the menu bar anymore. I tried every > combination of every password I could think of, but none worked. I need to > know how I can reset the password without knowing the password. > any help will be greatly appreciated. >
Unless you set it specifically to be different, the Keychain password is your login password; To reset your keychain password you use Keychain Access in your Utilities folder. (note this is in 10.12, your choices may be different in 10.6!) There used to be a keychain repair function, as I recall, you can try that. In my version of Keychain Access You can right click on the ‘login’ keychain and select ‘delete’ This deletes the existing ‘login’ keychain, along with any saved passwords, alas, but the whole point of the keychain is to make getting at your saved passwords hard. In my version of Keychain Access there’s an option in the Keychain Access preferences to reset the default keychain. This gives you a new one, but does not delete the old one, so if at some point you do recall the old password, you can retrieve the saved items in it. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
