I deleted my login keychain and now I have a brand new one that I can access.
Luckily for me I have a hard copy backup of all my passwords secreted away
where no one will find. I have a copy on a flash drive that took me three days
to locate. All is well now.Thanks for the help.
Fred
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Forgot Keychain password
| Fred Thiel <fth...@sbcglobal.net>: Mar 19 05:39PM
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.
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| John Hobbs <jfh...@googlemail.com>: Mar 19 06:47PM
What were you doing when this happened?
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| "Bruce Johnson" <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu>: Mar 19 08:40PM
> 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.
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College of Pharmacy
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