keychain dump

Delete the keychain preferences in Macintosh HD>System>Library. Best of luck.

Are you trying to dump the keychain contents to a text file so that the passwords are readable?

Tony T1 wrote:
Are you trying to dump the keychain contents to a text file so that the passwords are readable?

Close, he wants a safe file format for the keychain contents so that he can keep it as a secure easily recoverable file. Security is nothing without the ability to recover information.

Sorry, I have no idea what will do what you want.

I think you may have misinterpreted the meaning of the word 'dump'. The poster wants to make a copy, not delete the data


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I have a simple AppleScript which generates a tab-delimited text file, named Passwords saved to the Desktop containing the name, account username, and password for each key in my login.keychain. The file is a backup for all generic and webpage keys. Note that it *hasn't been tested in Leopard*, but should do the job.

Cut and paste it into Script Editor, compile it, and run it. Select the right-hand option in the dialog boxes that pop up; either allow always or allow once, whichever is not grayed out.

Paste the file's contents into Excel, sort it by name, clean it up a bit, print it out, and you have a permanent record of each password item (key), sorted by name, username, and password. Store it in a secure location.

<script>
set osXKeychainScriptingPath to ¬
(path to scripting additions from system domain as Unicode text) ¬
& "Keychain Scripting.app:" -- one line
set theSecuridPIN to {}

tell application "Keychain Scripting" to launch
tell application "Keychain Access" to launch

using terms from application "Keychain Scripting"
tell application osXKeychainScriptingPath
set KeyList to every Internet key of current keychain
repeat with aKey in KeyList
set theSecuridPIN to theSecuridPIN & ((name of aKey) & tab & ¬
(account of aKey) & tab & (password of aKey) & return) as text
end repeat
end tell
end using terms from

tell application "Keychain Scripting" to quit
tell application "Keychain Access" to quit

tell application "Finder"
open for access file (((path to desktop folder) as text) & ¬
"Passwords") with write permission
set theFile to result
write theSecuridPIN to theFile
close access theFile
end tell
<end script>

Tested in Tiger and Leopard.

I thought I corrected my post, but apparently missed this erroneous comment: *Note that it hasn't been tested in Leopard, but should do the job.*

I and others have tested it and *it works in both Tiger and Leopard.*

This works great. CAn you tell me what I need to modify to make it work the same on secure notes?

Thanks

btd1924

Thanks for the kudos. I have no idea about secure notes since I don't use them. Launch Script Editor, Window->Library and add Keychain Scripting to the list—it's in /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/, double-click on it, and read its dictionary.