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Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain

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David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> 
>> So this past week I was struck curious by a request for access to a 
>> keychain we rebootin.  It was the FMFD.
>> 
>> In recent reboots I'm asked for from 2 to 4 passwords, and have been 
>> for a number of years.  It's no great hassle, since it's generally so
>> rare that I reboot anyhow.  Still, it makes me wonder if there isn't a
>> simpler way.
> 
> There is. Change the password on your "login" keychain so it is the same
> as the user account password for your user account.

That's the default state on a newly installed system: both the user account
and the login key chain are set to the same password. 

> The system will then use the entry of the login password (either your
> manual entry or if you have set up the computer to log in automatically)
> to automatically unlock the login keychain, avoiding the need to type in
> another password the first time something wants the keychain.

That's how it works for most users because  the keychain password and user
account password are the same.

> 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.

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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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