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How do I fix my Keychain headache?

I finally made the switch to a mac. Great stuff here, and I'm a newbie, so this is really hard to explain/figure out, but maybe someone here can help me out with this.

When I launch Safari, I get a pop up from my keychain saying "Microsoft IntermediateCertificates" needs your keychain password.

"Oh ****!" I thought, what is this? You can view a screenshot of what I'm talking about here:
http://members.cox.net/yourbargain/macscreen.jpg

So of course, this gets even better. When I go to enter my password, which should be the same as my administrator account password, lo and behold, it says it's the wrong password.

So I go see if I can access my admin account, and I can, then I dash over to keychain access to unlock the mother, and I can't. What gives? Does anyone know what this is all about and what I can do to fix it.

By the way, it not only happens when I launch Safari, it happens when I launch other apps as well. So anybody who can help me out on this will win an all paid vacation to Jamaica first class...okay, I'm kidding, but I would greatly appreciate any help.

Cheers!


Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Dec 30, 2005 5:26 PM

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Jan 13, 2006 5:40 PM in response to zerimar3

I sure hope someone comes up with a solution to the keychain/filevault issues... this computer is not responding to my commands.
I too am the administrator and only user on my new Mac....
I sure miss my old Performa and OS 9 system...... I am most sorry we were all forced to upgrade to get a new browser that worked....GEESH.
the pop-ups on my new machine are forever demanding passwords to be given....they drive me crazy .... I want to delete the keychain folder in from utilities, maybe that might help me but I haven't learned to make a back up copy of my hard-drive yet... hopefully I don't do something too stupid trying to get this machine working nicely....
I've done everything the Help sections tells me to do but to no avail.
I've tried asking for help on all the Mac forums & so far they repeat all the things I've tried...
I also read a few techie's posts online stating that the Tiger OX 4. has these issues with some other computers besides ours ....if you learn anything new please share with me.....smile
BTW I too have Microsoft IntermediateCertificates listed like this;
Keychains
Microsoft IntermediateCertificates
login.keychain
daydreamer's Keychain.keychain ...

help please.
does anyone know what that mess is ?
maybe they are a conspiracy...smile

Jan 13, 2006 6:17 PM in response to zerimar3

OK. I just checked mine and no password opens the MS intermediate. I don't know where it came from or what it's used for. Like you, I'm the only user. However, I've never gotten a request from Safari for its password. You could do this: launch Keychain Access, select the MIcerts file, click on the File menu, and select delete the keychain. I'm ignoring it. Sorry, I don't have any more info. You might want to visit MS's site and see if you can find anything there.

Jan 13, 2006 7:00 PM in response to baltwo

BTW, it appears that the MSICert is related to Entourage 2004, which I don't use. See http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office/search?group=microsof t.public.mac.office&q=certificates&qt_g=1&searchnow=Searchthisgroup for some information.

Also, the MSICert file resides in ~/Library/Keychains/. You might want to move it out of there, restart, and see if that fixes the problem.

How do I fix my Keychain headache?

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