> On Jan 16, 2018, at 9:00 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jan 17, 2018, at 3:58, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Passwords can't be recovered. They can be reset, but doing so abandons >> every subsidiary password stored in your keychain (websites, banks, etc.) >> unless and until you remember what the password was before you reset it. > > For some reason I did have to dump my whole keychain and in deed it was a > pain to recreate everything but it was also a good opportunity to change all > my old passwords at once.
The reason isn't so mysterious — it's that the default keychain is encrypted with your login password. So if you lose your login password, you lose access to your entire keychain. Here I would like to recommend my brief guide to good password management and mechanisms <http://www.macsrwe.com/blog/?p=91>.
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