search for password in keychain

Robb Manning wrote:

I want to first say thank you for responding to my question, you didn't have to, and I appreciate your time.

No, I don't think you do understand what I meant. Because what I'm saying, is that I WANT to change my password, and I said that FIVE times, where do you get the notion that I "seemingly" to want to salvage it?

I've went through Apple security recommendations, and for all of those recommendations, that particular password wasn't used for any of them. No red flags come up for Apple that say, "your son knows your password."

haveibeenpwned is a great tool, unfortunately it still doesn't help me figure out where all I've used that password. And I'd be extremely concerned if it had that capability.

No, there's no way to search through Passwords to find all of the occurrences of a particular password.

There’s no global password search.

Passwords are optionally saved when used.

Best change your passwords to new and unique values, as who knows how far these current passwords have gotten.

Enable two-factor authentication on your Apple ID, and ensure that unexpected computers and devices are not marked as trusted in your iCloud listing of computers and devices associated with your Apple ID.

Compromised passwords are listed in the Apple security recommendations, and details of breached and compromised accounts are available at:

… https://haveibeenpwned.com/

As for finding passwords used on a Mac within Safari, check the Safari password preferences on the system(s) involved, and view the passwords there. Or better, change the passwords involved, as it seems entirely possible your passwords are already copied.

I understood well what you meant.

Change your password.

It’s been compromised.

Definitely compromised locally, and—inferring from what has been posted—potentially compromised further.

Inferring your investment in this particular password implies it may also have been re-used elsewhere, and which puts the account and that associated password at higher risk of exposure from server breaches elsewhere, and exposure to endemic credentials-stuffing attacks.

You’re seemingly trying to salvage an exposed password.

I’m suggesting ways to fix this problem and to avoid a much bigger mess with this and other passwords.

Check for this and other passwords of yours that may have been compromised via the Apple security recommendations and via haveibeenpwned, and change those, too—these tools are the exposed-password search.

There is no means to do what you want, as passwords can be hashed and unreadable, can be tokens or certificates and unreadable, and can be in keychain or potentially other storage for various apps which may or may not be available. Even assuming access into Keychain is accessible (and is not enabled for and shared cis iCloud Keychain), you’ll be looking in encrypted data across multiple logins, if there are Macs involved here, and as thenpassword can have already been copied elsewhere and deleted.

Change your major and your important passwords to new and unique values, and clean up the security recommendations.

Changing your password will render saved copies of the password elsewhere useless.

Apps using tokens will need to have those tokens revoked, unfortunately—some social media sets use tokens to “approve” app access, and Apple uses something similar with “trusted” devices. These are tougher to find and revoke.

Once a password has escaped, there’s no means to put it back, and no means to find where it’s gotten to—until it’s misused. (Two-factor gives you one last chance to avoid catastrophe, with a breached password, where that’s available.)