Hi Barb, Sorry, when I referred to the differences between 10.3 & 10.6, I meant the different menu configurations you are describing (on OSX 10.3.9) from what I see (on OSX 10.6.2).
The FileVaultMaster stuff is, as you say, probably down to the school IT team changing & locking down certain items to keep the students out of them - however you have always used Keychain on the OSX macs - it's just that you may not have been aware of it as it is generally operating quietly in the background so many people never have the need to fire-up the Keychain Access utility. There are actually lots of little utilities that Apple provides to let you tweak/inspect/fix things if you go looking for them - some people enjoy playing with all this but many people prefer the "if it's not broken - don't mess with it" approach - of course, when it IS broken, you have to mess with it ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 25/3/10 7:26 PM, Barb Zahari at buzz...@westnet.com.au wrote: > > Hi Neil > > Something won at least. eh? > > No don't think so - this older imac (grey/transparent slot loader > all-in-one) is running 10.3.9 same as the ethernet-less emac. > The version of Keychain installed on here is Keychain Access 3.1.4, > installed 13/04/05 - 5.51am - some teacher was up & at it early!! > > I've never actually used Keychain on any mac before - never found it > necessary. > > I suspect the differences are due to the school IT team changing & > locking down certain items to keep the students out of them! > > Cheers .. BarbZ > > > > On 25 Mar 2010, at 6:40 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: >> Hi Barb, >> >> Glad to hear you finally cracked it and unlocked your keychain. >> >> From your original post I see you are using OSX 10.3.9, so I expect the >> differences you now see are due to how Keychain Access has developed >> from >> 10.3 to 10.6. >> >> Personally, I had a big upgrade from 10.2 straight to 10.5, so I never >> used >> 10.3 or 10.4. >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: n...@possumology.com >> >> >> >> on 25/3/10 7:16 AM, Barb Zahari at buzz...@westnet.com.au wrote: >> >>> >>> AHA!! >>> >>> I think I may have cracked it! >>> >>> Had a few more guesses at the password - using "educationally >>> significant" words .. "student" seems to have been acceptable (7 >>> letters indeed Daniel!) .. doesn't seem a particularly secure choice!! >>> >>> Anyway the dialogue window went away & hasn't reappeared since/yet ... >>> >>> After that the password PLC gave me started working & I was able to >>> unlock "Keychain Access" and to trash "FileVaultMaster.keychain" & >>> "FileVaultMaster.cer(tificate)" & "System Keychain" from >>> ~/Library/Keychains. >>> >>> Keychain First Aid etc then became visible& accesible, but in the >>> "Window" column not the "Keychain Access" column. >>> "New Keychain" & "Add Keychain" are now also accessible in the "File" >>> column; >>> but there's still no "Preferences", either accessible or greyed out, >>> in >>> any column. >>> >>> Thanks for all the suggestions Ronni. Peter. Neil, Daniel .. going >>> through them got me thinking & trying various things. >>> >>> And now I'm going to bed!! >>> >>> Cheers .. BarbZ >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
