What does mac keychain access password#
What does mac keychain access mac#

i'll try it again now though and maybe something will 'pop' because not only are the dreaded keychain messages appearing again, but i couldn't login (it kept shaking when i entered my password) and so i just hard-powered-off and when it came back on, weird messages happened, but i finally am in again though i don't know for how long so i've gotta troubleshoot now i'm not exactly sure what safe mode does or is supposed to show-i've booted in safe mode a few times in the past when i had other kinks but i guess i didn't/don't really know what i'm doing there because i didn't see anything that would've shown me a fix for the problem or point me to the cause. Turns out i'm a dork and spoke too soon (at least yesterday/today i am) and there's still something very weird (and i think really bad) happening with my MBP, so i'm going to slowly and methodically go thru each step of troubleshooting again (your suggestions + apple posts that apply to this issue). Hey there, ralph (i approach with humbleness and hanging head). realistically, if 'they' be coming with any intent of doing any harm, So thx for the info and response, i very much appreciate it! have a fun day ~ sarine and (hopefully) it's been dealt with for good.

What does mac keychain access mac#

since my last post, i did all of the nourishment-inducing things i could think of to make my mac happy again (running disk utility's first aid a few times, uninstalling flash player, re-starting quite a few times, etc., etc.) and now at this point, i'm happy to say, all the weirdness appears to have resolved itself somehow (or one or a combination of my fix-it get-back-to-healthy attempts did the trick) and i haven't seen any keychain nasty message all day! so yay!. Whew! i'm not sure where that came from, but (1) i don't do bonjour (never have), (2) don't do ichat (never have), (3) i've never even signed in to/used mail or icloud, (4) i would never open a g-zip or tar file as described in the link you provided, (5) i don't employ any antivirus providers (i'm told they're the ones who create the viruses in the first place so i've steered clear), (6) as i said in my last response up above, i was able to open, save, and delete files and get online (after re-starting) so the only thing was that **** keychain thing. Restart the computer and see if you get the error alert again If it is dark text then select it to make it yours.

If it is greyed out then you already Own it. This should say Make yourShortName (me) the Owner. Highlight this line then Unlock the Padlock and then use the cogwheel type icon under the list.

You should have Read and Write Permission. Here should be your shortname (the Name the computer uses for you in Users/Little House icon Highlight this then do a Get Info (CMD + i key together) Select this and then navigate to the Keychains folder. This will show the Library you need in the Menu. Use the Go Menu whilst also holding down the ALT key. What is more likely is that for some reason you cannot Read and Write to the Keychain in /Library/Keychains There have been proof on concept stuff in labs. The OS X has yet to have a Virus in the wild (where anyone can get it). Keychain_access name.of. other posters might restate the debate about what is malware and what is a virus the facts are anyone can get Malware and virus are a specific type of malware in the way they work. This is how I use keychain_access to sign Sparkle updates: PIPE='$OUTPUT_DIR/key.pipe' If you want to pass a key from the Keychain to an openssl command without the key touching the harddrive, use a named pipe. The name of the keychain item you want to access. The default is to export them without a password.

What does mac keychain access password#

Sparkles appcast without having to type my password all the time, while at the same time not having to worry that my private key is stored in plaintext on my harddrive. I wanted to use private keys stored in my keychain in command-line scripts. Unfortunately there is no convenient way to to access public/private key pairs stored in the Keychain via security(1). Apple's security(1) command does already some of this work. The idea behind keychain_access is to provide Keychain features in the command line.