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I am trying to separate my keychain access password from my login password. I tried the security set-keychain pw cmd in terminal and the following error appeared: security: error changing password for "<NULL>": A default keychain could not be found. Not sure how to proceed as google hasn't found me a solution yet.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15
Gotcha. Well I suppose you could allow use of the Guest user, or even create a new user for your friend to use, without giving administrator privileges, or your admin password, this way they can still login but couldn’t make any changes that requires your admin password. I still wouldn’t recommend attempting to separate the two passwords though, there’s plenty of security restrictions you can put in place to prevent anyone using your Mac from seeing any of your passwords built in to the OS though, I can suggest a few, anyhow hope that helps!
Gotcha. Well I suppose you could allow use of the Guest user, or even create a new user for your friend to use, without giving administrator privileges, or your admin password, this way they can still login but couldn’t make any changes that requires your admin password. I still wouldn’t recommend attempting to separate the two passwords though, there’s plenty of security restrictions you can put in place to prevent anyone using your Mac from seeing any of your passwords built in to the OS though, I can suggest a few, anyhow hope that helps!
Hey there! Good question, this article may help:
The admin password, is, by default the same as the keychain password, as said in the article, if you change your admin password, the keychain password is changed to match it.
They’re supposed to match up, otherwise you’d have a whole lot of authentication issues and non stop pop ups asking for your keychain password.
Is there a reason you’re trying to separate the two?
Well, I'd like to do it just for the sake of doing it. But, id also like to let my friend use my computer for a couple of months. This is for a laptop that I don't use often but I don't want my passwords to be visible by knowing my login to my laptop.
Cannot change keychain password
