On Dec 7, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
>
> joe wrote:
>> I just set up a second hand G4 digital audio with OS X 10.3 already
>> installed on it. I used the install disk to reset the admin
>> password,
>> but I didn't realize that the keychain password is also unknown to
>> me.
>> I can't unlock Keychain to put it to use. (There's nothing there at
>> this point--I just want to use it.)
>>
>> Is there any way to get or reset that password short of re-installing
>> the OS?
>
> Use the "Keychain Access" utility to delete the keychain file(s). It
> should work okay after that.
>
>
> You might be better off just creating a whole new admin user and
> deleting the old one, just to burn the gunk out.
>
>
Sorry I wasn't very clear. It's a clean OS install (just one that I
didn't do). There's nothing stored in keychain right now. The
trouble is that I can't begin to use it for storing passwords without
the keychain password itself to unlock it. I thought that just used
the admin password or user password, but it doesn't. I re-set the
admin password (the only account) using the install disk, but I can't
unlock Keychain.
I hope I'm using the terminology correctly. For example, I just set
up an account in Mail, and when you check mail you've got to re-enter
the password. After you do so, a dialogue pops up asking if you want
to store it in Keychain--to do so you need to enter the Keychain
password (the admin account password I just reset doesn't work).
Does that make sense? (This is a computer I set up for someone else,
so I don't have quick access to it at the moment.)
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