I just upgraded to Lion. When I tried to open the Address Book, a Choose Application comes up asking "Where is Keychain Scripting?". I have no idea what it's talking about and Spotlight did not help find anything called Keychain Scripting. Any ideas?
MacBook Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.4), Mac mini Intel Core Duo
and since the app is now gone, anyone know of an alternative for accessing items stored in the keychain?
Same here.. I have a VPN script that used it in Snow Leopard, but now it's gone so the script bails. What is the replacement?
Oddly enough, I selected Address Book.app from the list in the dialog and Address Book launched (seemingly) fine.
the specific script i'm having issues with doesn't want to work and when i edit it in applescript editor, the editor wants to know the location of "Keychain Scripting.app". looking in the location where it was, /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Keychain Scripting.app - it's no longer there.
FWIW... I copied the "Keychain Scripting.app" file from my pre-Lion backup to the Scripting Additions directory in Lion and everything worked fine... Not sure why they removed it or if there was something new to replace it. At any rate, the Snow Leopard version works fine in Lion.
Restore these from your SL backup and recompile any scripts you made using them. All of mine run in Lion w/o issues
Keychain Scripting.app 4.0.2
URL Access Scripting.app 1.1.1
AFAIK, you need to run these in Terminal so as to not run into any permissions issues:
sudo chown root:wheel /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Keychain\ Scripting.app
sudo chown root:wheel /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/URL\ Access\ Scripting.app
Thanks. That is very helpful.
I would really like a kb article on this though. Is the missing keychain scripting app an oversight or was it deprecated. If it is deprecated I will find an alternate solution. I will post a bug on the developer site and see what kind of reply I get.
But in the meantime this solves my problem. Thanks.
Haven't a clue. Others have filed BRs for missing functionality during beta-testing, but no definitive response.
Update your script to use /usr/bin/security instead of scripting.app.
Matt, the keychain application is still around (Keychain Access) if this is the one you are looking for:
It was in my Applications > Utilities folder.
How exactly does one use the security executable in place of keychain scripting].app?
i ended up hacking in security to replace keychain scripting.app.
@baltwo
security find-generic-password -a <Account> -g
will output the information and the password can be extracted from the results. it worked for the specific need that i had.
Simpler to just migrate the two missing apps from the previous OS.
If you open that up in the AppleScript Editor you'll find that it is not scriptable--probably for security reasons. But Apple used to provide a separate application called Keychain Scripting which no longer appears to be available in Lion--again, probably for security reasons.
I found a solution I like better than using an old, unsupported on Lion scripting library.
Daniel Jalkut of the Red Sweater blog has written a replacement called 'Usable Keychain Scripting'. It meets my needs and is signifcantly faster than the library that was available on Leopard and Snow Leopard. You can find it here:
http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/2035/usable-keychain-scripting-for-lion
It isn't supported but it is a worthy update from the Apple supplied version.
"Where is Keychain Scripting?"
