Secrity lock

Hi Deanna, When you select an "https" site in Safari, a small lock icon ought to appear in the upper right of your browser window. Do you see it?

If you are not seeing the "lock" icon, then there may be a problem with the Certificates in your keychain file.

Go to your Utilities folder>Keychain access. Open it. Then in the keychains menu, select Keychain First Aid. Run the "validate" step. If any errors, select "repair". Rerun until you get a clean pass.

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You should see "X509 Anchors" listed in the collections column. Inside are the various web certificates.

My keychain browser window looks like this:



If you don't see the left column, take your mouse and click/drag to the right the left side grey border. That ought to reveal the collections column. Take note of the X509 Anchors collection.

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Is there an X509 Anchor certificate set in your keychain?

Ok. Good to know the certificates are intact.

Go to your Finder: Your User Account>Library>Preferences folder. Move to the desktop the com.apple.security.revocation.plist file.

Restart Safari and try a https site. Does the lock appear? If not, quit Safari. Then, "repair permissions" using Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. Do this twice. Restart Safari again.

If the lock appears, you can move the file on your desktop to the trash. Otherwise, move it back to its original location.

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I do not have a security.revocation.plist file. Just a security.plist one. Nothing at all with revocation in the name. Should I move that one?

Well that's strange. Create a new user account, trying Safari<https from there.
If you need direction for establishing the account:

[url=http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh168.html]Here is guidance from Apple[/url] on how to set up the account. You can ignore step 7 in the article.

Also, on the system preference>Accounts panel, click on "log-in" options. There, select "fast user switching". This allows you to go back and forth between user accounts via an icon in your Menu Bar at the top of the computer screen.

Log-on to the new account and start Safari. If the https site icon appears in the new account, then your problem is specific to your regular user account. Otherwise, similar response means a system-wide problem.

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