New PB - Keychain has wrong name

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New PB - Keychain has wrong name

Is there any way to change the short name that is referred to in all the passwords of my Keychain?
I've just moved to a new PowerBook. I used the Migration Assistant to do the transfer but did not allow for the fact that the new 'short name' in the new computer and the old 'short name' in the material transferred from the old computer would conflict in the Keychains on the new machine. Point is that now, when I'm using my new account in new computer with new short name, it keeps asking for keychain passwords for the old short name!
Can I change all keys in my keychain to the new short name? Or...
Can I change my short name to match the old short name?
Would either of these solve my problem of constantly being asked for passwords for the same functions?
I hope this makes sense. Thank you.

AlBook G4 15/1.67, Mac OS X (10.4.3), 80GBHD, 1GB RAM, SuperDriveDL

Posted on Nov 22, 2005 8:02 AM

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Answer 1

mfs

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Dec 5, 2005 3:14 PM in response to PaulWR

If this info is still of use, you might look at ChangeShortName on this site:

http://www.macosxpowertools.com/

It might do what you want.

Mike

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Answer 2

scb

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Dec 5, 2005 11:28 PM in response to mfs

I am presuming that both machines have the same shortname, right?

You can just use the original Keychains. Look in ~/Library/Keychains for a file called "looginkeychain". There may be others in there i.e from Microsoft). Just move those into the folder on the new machine, and toss the ones in there now. Use Keychain Access to view them, and edit them, if you wish.

Be warned, that changing the shortname is precarious, at best.

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