[chris v]

The keychain file for my main user (admin) somehow got locked when I upgraded my Cube to 10.2.3, and it won't let me unlock it. I never set a password for Keychain acess, because well, frankly, my computer never asked me to. I looked at both of my OS X boxes at work today, and both of them had unlocked keychain files, and will accept and save passwords.

Whenever I enter a password on my Cube, the machine asks me if I want to store it in Keychain. If I say yes, it gives me a dialog asking for the password to unlock the keychain. My user password does not work for this-- I get a "invalid username or password" dialog. Basically, I now have the added headache of having to click through a couple of additional dialogs whenever I access any password-protected anything, and I can neither store nor retrieve passwords from the keychain. This makes my iDisk doubly painful to log into (when it works at all).

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CV

[Earth Mk. II]

Keychain First Aid may be worth a try...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107234

[chris v]

Good thought,and thanks, as I'd never heard of that, but no go. Here's the rub: (quote from repair log)

"Password for ~/Library/Keychains/chrisvre is not the same as login password, so keychain can't be unlocked automatically"

I've used the same password for everything on this machine since OS 9. Never wavered, even once. Weird.

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CV

[chris v]

A combo of Repair Disk Permissions (I'd done this a week ago!) and rebuilding the directories with Disk Warrior did the trick. Seems to be back to normal.

CV

[kennedy]

Originally posted by Earth Mk. II:
Keychain First Aid may be worth a try...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107234

Thanks for pointing that out... I can't believe I had never run across that before... KeyChain hasn't worked right since 10.1... just a useless headache... it seems to have fixed a bunch of problems... it'll be awesome if it actually works now!

[parisblue]

It's good to see I'm not the only one with this problem. However, the KeyChain First Aid just runs into a Catch22 situation when I try to use it. Verification fails so it tells me to repair. I go to repair and it asks me for my keychain password which it tells me is incorrect. Like everyone else I've never set a different keychain password, so I'm in a real mess in not knowing what my keychain password is making it effectively useless.

Can anyone think of anything else I can do to try and fix this?

[niji]

it became so frustrating for me that i simply deleted my keychain and started over.
thnx

[parisblue]

I think that is what I am going to have to do. I even reset all passwords with the original install disk (CD) to no avail.