In the process of switching to a new laptop (for which there are good
reasons why I can't use the migration tool), I made sure to visit
Keychain Access to recover certain passwords. Of course, there's no
way to say "Here's my password, now give me unrestricted access for
the next N minutes." You get to click Allow Once for each item.
Now, that's what I *normally* do. But since I'm about to blow away
this account anyway, I click Allow All. But it's still per-item, so
that saves me nothing.
But that is not the topic of today's hate. No, today's hate is much
worse.
One of the passwords I wish to recover is for tethering through my
phone. Naturally the phone itself doesn't provide the option to
display the password. So, I just pull it out of Keychain Access, right?
Wrong. Internet Connect doesn't store the password in the keychain.
[1] HATE. HATE. HATE.
Also, HATE.
Josh
[1] To be fair, OT/PPP didn't use the keychain either, but the prefs
file containing the password was in an obvious location and the
password was held in memory in cleartext, in its own handle, so you
could pick it out with ZoneRanger. Five minutes, tops.
