Migrate to new mac from Mavericks to Yosemite, all ARD passwords lost

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Migrate to new mac from Mavericks to Yosemite, all ARD passwords lost

Hi all,

Have a pretty extensive list of macs in ARD on my current iMac, which is running OS X Mavericks 10.9.5. Just got a new retina iMac running Yosemite and successfully migrated my user over to the new machine using the Migration Assistant (or whatever it is called these days).

I verified that my keychains were copied over. When I launch ARD, I needed to re-enter the serial number. No problem, I have that. However, when I get to my list of macs, every one says that it does not have a password and will not connect.

Is there any way to get these passwords back or do I need to go through and manually enter every one? I would have thought this data would have migrated, but it appears it has not.

Any and all advice you have would be most appreciated.

Thanks!

Rob

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), null

Posted on Jul 24, 2015 7:09 AM

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Brian Nesse

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Jul 24, 2015 8:23 AM in response to xrob

The Migration Assistant may have pulled your user account over, but the relevant preferences are actually located in /Library/Preferences/com/apple.RemoteDesktop.plist.

If you do a 'defaults read com.apple.RemoteDesktop accessCredentials' in terminal, and don't get a bunch of raw data back, you might try moving that plist over from the original machine.

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