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Safari asking for Keychain Password

Safari keeps asking for my Keychain Password. The one I put in isn't correct and I don't know what the correct password is...

Macbook (2008), Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 18, 2009 11:08 AM

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Jan 18, 2009 12:06 PM in response to William Worthington

Hi William

Usually the keychain password is the same as the Administrator one for the system. If it is different, yet you can't remember it, the password won't be accessible (for security reasons). You'll need to delete your keychain file and either start-over, or if you have an older version of the keychain.login file, replace the existing one and try again (you might get lucky if that version has a PW the same as your Admin PW).

If the PW for Keychain is the same as your Admin, open Keychain Access in your Utilities folder and via the KA menu run "Keychain First-Aid">repair.

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Jan 21, 2009 9:07 AM in response to William Worthington

By "older copy" I mean the one installed prior to running the reset. As the article mentions, when you reset the keychain, the existing keychain file is replaced with a fresh copy. By chance, if you remember the original password, you could always go back to the initial copy by renaming it to keychain.login and have access once more to your various web site user names/passwords.

Did you try the reset?

Safari asking for Keychain Password

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