Lost my Keychain password! Please help.

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Lost my Keychain password! Please help.

I did a clean install of leopard and it is now saying that my keychain password is wrong. I tried putting my login password...no go.

Here is the kicker. I don't want to delete the keychain because it has my old aim password on it. I do not remember that password and I used an old email address to create it years ago.

Is there anyway to reset the keychain password via terminal or some other app. Please help me. I am desperate and I am going to loose years of contacts because of this.

All I need to do is retrieve my aim/ichat password and I can delete the key chain. That is the only password I don't have besides the keychain password.

HELP!

Mac Pro 2008 2.8 Quad Core, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Dec 10, 2008 6:18 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 10, 2008 6:25 PM in response to Robert Martinez

Boot up from the Mac OS X install disk and repair permissions from Disk Utility.

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Answer 2

Dec 10, 2008 6:31 PM in response to I-love-my-macbook

I have tried repairing permissions from the disc and it still doesn't recognize the password.

My login password has been changes a couple of times over the years and I can remember all of them. Could my keychain password be one of those?

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V.K.

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Dec 10, 2008 6:41 PM in response to Robert Martinez

There is absolutely NO way to break into a keychain if you don't remember the keychain password. unless you can remember the password all the data inside is lost.

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Answer 4

Dec 10, 2008 8:08 PM in response to V.K.

I have found this app. It is not available any longer though. kcpasswd 1.0

www.versiontracker.com

This kills me. Wish I could somehow get my AIM password.

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V.K.

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Dec 10, 2008 8:13 PM in response to Robert Martinez

that application simply provided a command line way to change the keychain password. you'd still have to know the old password to use it. keychain is encrypted and is specifically designed to protect the passwords stored inside from anybody trying to break in. as I said, there is no way to break that (which is a very good thing IMO).

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Answer 6

Dec 11, 2008 8:23 AM in response to Robert Martinez

Robert Martinez wrote:
Could my keychain password be one of those?

Try them and see. The password should be whatever it was when you backed up the keychain.

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