Re: LOG IN brainlock

2013-04-24 Thread Bruce Johnson 

On Apr 24, 2013, at 8:11 AM, JohnV  wrote:

> Got restart with SNOW CD and reset password.
> 
> now it seems  the KEYCHAIN system is locked.
> 
> Right now staring at the dialogue box offering
> CONTINUE LOG IN...
> CREATE NEW KEYCHAIN...
> UPDATE KEYCHAIN PASSWORD
> 
> the hang here is, if I read this right, I still need to remember my OLD 
> password to keep all the keychain stuff working? Or am I missing something 
> (highly likely)
> 

nope, you are correct; the keychain password is separate from your login 
password, it's just that OS X changes them together when you do this usually.

You've got two basic options. 

1) Bite the bullet, create a new keychain and say bye-bye to all your saved 
passwords.

2) Select  'Continue log in' and once you're in, try again to remember the old 
password. I don't remember exactly but I'm pretty sure 'Update keychain 
password' also requires the old password. You will be bugged about this every 
time you run something with a remembered password.

This MIGHT work to recover passwords, since you do know your new Admin 
password: . You'll need the OS X 
Developers Tools to compile it.

It certainly worked on my system; but my keychain is unlocked. When I locked my 
keychain, it found nothing.

Forgetting system passwords is bad.

One thing you can do (for free) is:

use Disk Utility to create an encrypted disk image. It doesn't have to be large 
a few megabytes is sufficient for this purpose.
DON'T forget the password to this, or write it down and put it someplace 
secure, like a safe.

Open the disk image, and using any editor (a text editor like BBEdit or 
TextWrangler is ideal) write down all your passwords and usernames and any 
other useful information you may need (like Credit card numbers, house alarm 
pins, etc etc). Save the text file on the disk image. Drag the mounted disk to 
the trash to eject (and lock) it, and save it somewhere safe. 

Mine is in my Dropbox, so I can get to it any time I want, on any of my Macs 
(since it's a disk image, I cannot access it via the Dropbox web intercface or 
on my iPad). 

This is really useful because it lets you create insanely comples passwords for 
things like bank accounts and such, yet all you have to do is open the disk 
image and copy the passwords out off the document and paste it into the web 
login screens.

The other thing to do is maintain a paper copy of all this information, ALSO 
put somewhere safe, like a safe deposit box or houshold fireproof safe, etc, so 
that in the worst case scenario you can still get into things.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs


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Re: LOG IN brainlock

2013-04-24 Thread JohnV 

Got restart with SNOW CD and reset password.

now it seems  the KEYCHAIN system is locked.

Right now staring at the dialogue box offering
CONTINUE LOG IN...
CREATE NEW KEYCHAIN...
UPDATE KEYCHAIN PASSWORD

the hang here is, if I read this right, I still need to remember my  
OLD password to keep all the keychain stuff working? Or am I missing  
something (highly likely)




On Apr 24, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote:


Il giorno 24/04/13 16.19, "JohnV" ha scritto:


Just restarted and Even with the hint I used, I can NOT recall what
the password is.


Google "recovering password osx"

First result is the one you should looking into:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1274

Scroll down to " Resetting a user's password in Mac OS X v10.6.8 or
earlier",
and this should put you back on business. :-)


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Re: LOG IN brainlock

2013-04-24 Thread Valter Prahlad 
Il giorno 24/04/13 16.19, "JohnV" ha scritto:

> Just restarted and Even with the hint I used, I can NOT recall what
> the password is.

Google "recovering password osx"

First result is the one you should looking into:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1274

Scroll down to " Resetting a user's password in Mac OS X v10.6.8 or
earlier",
and this should put you back on business. :-)


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Re: LOG IN brainlock

2013-04-24 Thread Paul Twiddy 
Not.

On Apr 24, 2013, at 10:19 AM, JohnV wrote:

> How dead am I?

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LOG IN brainlock

2013-04-24 Thread JohnV 
Apologiy but It's not teh G5 but the iMac 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo
10.6.8


It's been running for weeks and seems the last time I changed the  
opening password for starting the machine, I was too clever by half.  
Just restarted and Even with the hint I used, I can NOT recall what  
the password is.


How dead am I?

John V

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