Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain
Date	2016-11-14 17:34 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<e8uatrFfprdU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<2016111310562964103-xxx@yyyzzz> <1mwpx92.fu2znoffcaoN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <e8t4trF71tqU1@mid.individual.net> <2016111407034759200-xxx@yyyzzz>

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On 2016-11-14, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2016-11-14 06:46:20 +0000, Jolly Roger said:
>> David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>> 
>>> I used to have a different password for my keychain but several OS X
>>> versions ago it started to get unweildy because too many things kept
>>> asking for it. Made them the same password and that annoyance went
>>> away.
>> 
>> I suspect gtr originally had his user account password and login
>> keychain password set to an empty string. Then he later changed the
>> user account password, but *didn't* set the login keychain password
>> to the same thing.
>
> Exactly.

Ok. So in the future, keep this in mind. Typically, when you change your
user account password, the login keychain password is automatically
changed to match. IIRC (it's been a while), under normal circumstances
when you do change your user account password, at least some versions of
macOS will ask you if you want to change the login keychain password as
well. You always want to do that when prompted. If there is no prompt,
I'd assume it happens automatically.

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JR

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Login Passwords for KeyChain gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-11-13 10:56 -0800
  Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-11-14 19:20 +1300
    Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-14 06:46 +0000
      Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-11-14 07:03 -0800
        Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-14 17:34 +0000
          Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-11-14 18:09 -0800
          Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2016-11-16 04:19 +0000
            Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-16 05:39 +0000
    Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-11-14 07:03 -0800

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