Comments on: Leopard Keychain Problems, Fix

By: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:49:36 +0000

I'm sorry but these problems are imaginary. Apples don't break.

Thanks,

Steve

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:51:26 +0000

One more thought. Go to “Key Chain Access”, click “Keychain First Aid”, then select Repair and start and you will create new setup login keychain.

Aaron

By: Leon Ho » Blog Archive » Leopard Upgrade Problem - Keys do not stick on Keychain

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:34:21 +0000

[...] Webomatica and MacFixit have mentioned other ways to fix common problems on Keychain. [...]

By: Pit

Pit — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:22:59 +0000

I had similar problems as you have decibed here. In may case the permission of the file ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain wasn’t correct. Make sure that you have read/write access rights to the file.

Pit

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:16:37 +0000

This had been bugging me to no end — strangely not enough to get me to do anything about it until now though. Anyway, thanks for doing the more difficult work for us who waited it out.

By: Terri

Terri — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:34:13 +0000

I am having the exact same problems you guys are, only to complicate the matter further, it doesn’t except my password, and so i cannot even unlock them to delete.
And since it demands the keychain password in entourage, i cannot send email…
Help!

By: STEVE

STEVE — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:43:32 +0000

LUKE…

re: my last comment. I found the way around this was on the new login file that was created was to right click (get info) click the button (allow all applications to access the item) then save changes.
All working fine.
Although I wonder if this action could have been done from the start without deleting the original keychain login file.

Please help Luke….when you say to right click on the login file do you mean from keychain application as I can’t seem to locate it !!!! HELP PLEASE OB1 THIS IS DOING MY NUT IN…..

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:49:31 +0000

I have the same problem using Leopard on a MacBook Pro. I’ve been using Leopard for a week now and once in a while the keychain access password would not work. It seemed hit and miss until today. I had opened up the keychain but it wouldn’t accept my keychain password to unlock access. While I was reading these comments, I ran Disk Utility to correct permissions. Although it said it had a minute remaining, it STAYED a minute remaining for close to 5 minutes and I didn’t hear any disk accesses. Forcing quit and trying it again didn’t get any better. Forced quit the second time just to give up. BUT the kicker is now my passwords work!! I have not done anymore research on this yet, but it may be worth a try for anyone else having a password problem.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:13:14 +0000

Luke, adding access to all your applications is a necessary step if you want the keychain to remember your passwords. In my case, I definitely had to recreate the keychain because I checked that setting on the keychain I deleted and it was active. Part of the problem was the broken keychain might remember my passwords during one session but the next time I booted up the computer I’d have to re-enter all the information again.

By: luke

luke — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:21:38 +0000

Best

By: luke

luke — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:11:14 +0000

The above did not work!
Instead it created even more annoying problems. now everytime mail opens it ask for a keychain password. once that password is typed I still have to type my password for each account.
I strongly do not recommend doing the above.
I have searched high and low and tried everything to fix leopard mail password issues.

One very disgruntled mac user.

By: Shawn Blanc » How to Repair the Empty Keychain Passwords in Leopard

Shawn Blanc » How to Repair the Empty Keychain Passwords in Leopard — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:55:10 +0000

[...] discovered Jason was having the same problem, and his solution was pretty basic: delete the login keychain and start [...]

By: Apple OS X Leopard: Still Thumbs Up » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:14:57 +0000

[...] two cents to toss in is personally: I’ve only had a few minor issues – my keychain problem (which has been resolved) and Front Row not working ideally on the MacBook when viewing the Mac Mini [...]