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Re: Login Passwords for KeyChain

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gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2016-11-14 17:34:51 +0000, Jolly Roger said:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Having now done this I thought I'd update a few of the details for 
> future passers-by.
> 
> I attempted to go into KeyChain Access and change the passwords to 
> correlate with my login password. The first keychain I tried, told me 
> that four characters (replicating my login) did not present sturdy 
> enough security.  So I bailed.
> 
> Instead I decided to make my login password match the longer password I 
> had been using for my keychains. So I did that.  Thus everything 
> matched up; when restarting I no longer had to give various processes 
> access to my login or "Local Items" keychains.
> 
> Then--what the hell--I went back into system preferences and changed my 
> login a second time--back to my trusty insecure four-letter password of 
> old.  Bingo--the keychains seem to have followed suit as I am still not 
> being asked for additional access when I do a reboot.
> 
> Thus ends saga #243.

Excellent. 

Thanks for reporting back.

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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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