Re: Forgot Keychain password

2017-03-20 Thread Julia Brinckloe 
http://tidbits.com/article/14437

Scroll down to keychain password. Hope it helps.

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Fred Thiel  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.
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Re: Forgot Keychain password

2017-03-20 Thread Bruce Johnson 

> On Mar 20, 2017, at 8:36 AM, Julia Brinckloe  wrote:
> 
> http://tidbits.com/article/14437
> 
> Scroll down to keychain password. Hope it helps. 

Just a tip: if you do have to go the Single User route, the instructions there 
are incomplete:

• Reboot into Single User mode by restarting the Mac and holding 
Command-S while the system comes back up. Numerous lines of status messages 
will scroll by.

• Once you have a command-line prompt, enter this command to mount the 
root Mac OS X drive as writable, so you can make changes to the filesystem:

mount -uw /

You really want to do a ‘fsck  -fy' command first. Fortunately OS X tells you 
that when you boot into single user mode. 



I repeat the fsck command until it reports that no changes were made to the 
file system before I mount the volume for read/write access. 99.999% of the 
time this means running it only once or twice. If it comes up reporting errors 
on the second run, there’s likely something wrong with the disk.

Navigating single user mode is a useful tool; you can use it to ‘break into’ a 
Mac you don’t have a password for, just do the above, then delete the file 
/var/db/.AppleSetupDone and reboot. The Mac now thinks that it’s never been set 
up and walks you through creating an admin account. All the other users, 
applications, setup, etc are retained. 

I do this with new laptops where I work: I set up the mac with our standard IT 
support local account, install all the required apps, printers, VPN, etc, then 
delete that file and hand it to the end user. They can set up the account name 
they want and password, so we never have to write those down ;-) 

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Re: Digest for imaclist@googlegroups.com - 3 updates in 1 topic

2017-03-20 Thread Fred Thiel 
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 : 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 : Mar 19 06:47PM  

 What were you doing when this happened?
 
 
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|   "Bruce Johnson" : Mar 19 08:40PM  

 > On Mar 19, 2017, at 10:39 AM, Fred Thiel  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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University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
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