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Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain
Date 2016-11-16 05:39 +0000
Message-ID <e929o4FednqU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <1mwpx92.fu2znoffcaoN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <e8t4trF71tqU1@mid.individual.net> <2016111407034759200-xxx@yyyzzz> <e8uatrFfprdU2@mid.individual.net> <o0gmoi$au8$1@dont-email.me>

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Király <me@home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> All true. Keep in mind, though, that that only works if you are changing 
> user A's login password if you are are logged in as user A. If you 
> change A's login password while logged in as B, A's keychain password 
> doesn't change.

Eww. That's not good. Then again it's not hard to change the login keychain
password later separately - assuming you know to do it.

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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> - 2017-01-11 09:27 -0800
            Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-11 21:14 +0000
    Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-11-14 07:03 -0800

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