the password management system in OS X
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Change location of Certificate Authority directory in OSX
Call me paranoid. When I create sensitive data on my Mac, I store it in an encrypted sparsebundle. So when I recently used the Certificate Assistant to create a new Certificate Authority, I did so ...
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FileVault 2 encrypted disks with my home directory on a different drive
I have multiple volumes on my mac and I just enabled encryption on the other drives. My home folder is stored on one of those drives. Now I can't login because it can't see my home directory, but if I ...
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Added site certificate to X509Anchors keychain and STILL can't view page
I added the certificate to the X509Anchors keychain and I STILL can't view FedEx tracking page. It starts to load and then gets cancelled.
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Does Console.app also log passwords?
I'm a newb of OS X (or any flavor of *Nix for that matter) so this came to mind lately.. As the Console.app logs every single process that's running, does to also mean passwords & such are also ...
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How can I figure out which keychain entries a process wants access to
I'm getting really tired of seeing this:
As I understand it, ubd (the Ubiquity daemon) is responsible for the “Documents and Data” portion of iCloud's syncing. However, all of my iCloud-related data ...
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Mount a samba drive, with password from keychain
I have a problem with Jettison, that tries to remount a samba drive, that is protected by a password.
It uses the following command line:
/sbin/mount_smbfs //[user]@[server]/work /Volumes/work
Of ...
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How does keychain restore work in other idevice?
app A stores passwords in keychain programmatically. One password is stored in one keychain item. Keychain item is a class of type Generic Password. app A is installed & used in idevice1 & ...
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What is accountsd and why does it want to use the “login” keychain?
Periodically, I'm seeing this keychain dialog pop up:
I click 'Cancel', then it pops up again, then I click 'Cancel' again, and it goes away for a while. (Maybe an hour or two, I haven't timed ...
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Google Chrome doesn't import Keychain credidentials after update
I had installed the new Google Chrome update and after I restarted the browser, it stopped using my Keychain credentials. Is it possible to solve this problem somehow ?
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scripting keychain - disk image - timecapsule
If I click though the gui configuration of time capsule in 10.8 and choose encrypt back ups, 3 things are installed in my keychain.
I have scripted the creation of these 3 keys but am having ...
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How to move the /Users to an encrypted ZFS drive?
When setting up a ZFS pool on an encrypted CoreStorage volume, a manual typing of the password is required each time for mounting the volume (due to the problem of OS X thinking that the password is ...
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An error occurred when configuring keychain syncing
I'm using MobileMe to sync my keychain between an iMac and a MacBook Air. Since both machines run Lion this error message pops up every other system start (or when waking up from sleep):
"An error ...
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Keychain access to Microsot_Intermidiate_Certificates
I need access to Microsoft Intermidiate Certificates in my Key Chain.
I unlocked the key chain using administrator password but still no access to the MIC.
It keeps asking me for a password (that I ...
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What is assistantd?
Ever since I upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion and installed OS X Server, I keep getting prompts for my Keychain password from a process called assistantd. I'm pretty sure that it's an OS X process, but ...
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Forcing the wifi password entry dialogue to display
When the administrator of a wifi network changes the network password to something new, previously associated devices that have the old password saved will no longer be able to connect until they ...
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Can I make unlocking the screensaver also unlock the login keychain?
I have the screen saver on my Mac password protected, but unlocking the screen saver does not unlock the login keychain. I know this because I get asked to unlock the login keychain shortly after ...
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Repeated pop-ups 'Safari wants to use the “login” keychain'
I get repeated pop-ups saying
I then enter the password
But the system always keeps on telling me it's the wrong password, which I'm sure it's not
This is what the Details reveal:
What is ...
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why would keychain access silently discard an S/MIME X.509 certificate?
A co-worker sent me some S/MIME signed email. With anyone else who has done this, the certificate has shown up in my login keychain. Not so with his. I wrote out the attached p7s file, and verified ...
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iOS provisioning Key won't attach to certificate
I'm trying to deploy apps to iOS devices from my Macbook Pro. I've followed the provisioning instructions to the letter and had other experienced iOS devs walk through it with me so I know I'm not ...
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HomeSync / Mobile - Settings & keychain missing
I've recently rolled out an Open Directory domain in our office. The domain has been set up so user profiles are synced with the server via HomeSync, so we could use FileVault2 to encrypt the ...
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Add admin username & password to the keychain
How can the admin's username password, be remembered or added it to the keychain so these annoying prompts would be less frequent?
The app referenced here (Anvil) is not relevant.
I'm looking for a ...
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How to restore servers signed certificates and private keys?
Starting fresh install of OS X Server on myserver.example.com running Mountain Lion after having saved the private key, intermediate and public certificates on another computer.
Now I want to ...
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signing one certificate with another
I have a certificate that I have created using openssl. I wish to import it into keychain, sign using a custom CA and then export it back out in two parts, the key and the crt. How could I go about ...
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Check keychain availability [duplicate]
I would like to test if a keychain is there and if so mount a server disk.
How can check if a keychain is there or not in a script?
Thanks for your help.
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Is there any way to crack a password-protected disk image?
I have created a .dmg file with password. Unfortunately I forgot the password and I my Google searches have not resulted in a way to reset the password of this .dmg file.
Please help me find a ...
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Store iTunes Password in Keychain
Is there any way to get Mac OS X to save iTunes/App Store login info (ie username and password) to the Keychain? It's strange that pretty much all other application and website passwords are stored ...
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Should time machine backups be encrypted
I am new to the Mac and was setting up my Time Machine. However, it seems Time Machine also backs up information in the keychain.
I was wondering if that means I should use an encrypted disk to store ...
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Login keychain disappears on login
Running 10.8.2 on MacBook Pro, sometime after upgrading to Mountain Lion 10.8.1 I started getting the message box that passwords, etc. could not be saved to keychain. I did the usual (repair ...
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protecting keychain data when using Time Machine
I plan to use Time Machine to back up by data.
If the backup is not encrypted, can someone with access to the TimeMachine disk access my keychain passwords? Do they at least need to know my system ...
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Import certificates into System Keychain via the command line
Is it possibly to copy a certificate to machine running to OS X Snow Leopard, add it to the System Keychain, then set it to "Always Trust via SSH?"
And if so... how?
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How to fix a Lion upgrade that killed SSH keys?
I just upgraded to Lion and find now that my ssh keys are not working properly when trying to log into various servers via SSH.
I've checked permissions on the ~/.ssh directory and the ...
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Adding default keys to keychain for new users
I am configuring multiple iMacs on the same network so users can log in with an Active Directory account, and I have configured the default user template to have all the correct settings. I am running ...
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How to move Keychain from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion?
I am trying to move keychain database from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.
I can't find the place of keychain in Mountain Lion anymore.
Even if I will find that keychain file location:
Will it be ...
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networksetup not changing credentials for authorized proxy access
Background: I work in a school and we have shared laptops (which is a whole other issue) which for some AD integration difficulties are using a generic login. Due to the requirements of having a paper ...
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Move items from old keychain to new keychain
I've just done a clean Mountain Lion install, and one thing bothers me a lot:
How can I move passwords from my old keychain to the one created by the installer when it performed a clean install ...
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Deploying default Wifi settings and Passwords
I am building a default 10.8 image for our corporate Mac users. We have a local Wifi network which should be set up by default on this image. I have used PackageMaker to set up all the other ...
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Safari wants to access my keychain doesn't offer “always deny”… How can I implement this?
The only choice Safari asks me w.r.t keychain access is "deny" or "allow" or "always allow".
Why doesn't Safari offer me an "always deny" option in Safari? How can I make the system "always deny"?
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Hide/Remove a Key from Keychain Access
Is there a way to hide a key (i.e. a wifi WPA key password) from being listed in Keychain Access but still have OS X be able to use it? We're a school and we we don't want users to be able to access ...
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Repair Permissions messed up network preferences
I ran repair permissions a few days ago, because other accounts on my computer couldn't open system preferences (this problem persists, but I don't care about it very much). What does bother me, ...
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Can the OS X keychain juggle two accounts for the same site?
I have a different passwords for:
www.example.com/foo/login and
www.example.com/bar/login
It seems as if the keychain only saves the passwords in relation to the sitename as it does not make ...
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After sleep, Messages doesn't consult Keychain for passwords
My MacBook will often sleep while I take a break, and when it wakes up, Messages doesn't consult Keychain for passwords. Instead, I'm prompted for all of my passwords again.
Why is this? Is there ...
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Getting errors when trying to send something using Gmail and Mail 5
I've had a problem for awhile with a Gmail account linked to Mail, which arose last summer after I upgraded to Lion. When I try to send a signed message (signed, in terms of security, not a signature ...
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How can I add a private key to my keychain?
I am trying to add myRepositoryKey to my Mac keychain utility so . I exported this item in OpenRSA format from Putty. When I try to use Import Items, the file is unselectable. What do I need to do to ...
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Why public keys from iOS developer profile are not transferred to another computer? [closed]
I have two dev machines I want to use for iOS development. I have successfully setup my iOS dev profile on my main machine.
I transferred my iOS developer profile to a secondary machine using ...
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Keychain: Secure Notes: Access to this item is restricted [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Keychain says “Access to this item is restricted” after upgrading to Lion
I recently did a clean install on my MacBook pro. Before I did the clean install, I backed up ...
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How to delete or untrust all root certificates in OSX?
In Keychain Access it looks like you can only untrust/delete certificates one at a time.
But there are a lot of certificates I want to get rid of. How can I take care of them all at the same time?
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Can't see keychain passwords on another mac
I am syncing one of my keychains over Google Drive. Unfortunately things which I add on Snow Leopard I am unable to see on Mountain Lion.
Is it some common issue, which could be easily fixed?
Or can ...
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Why does iPhoto need to “repair inconsistencies” in my libraries after every time I quit and open it?
Every time I open iPhoto '11 (version 9.2.3, latest version), it displays a dialog box that asks me to repair inconsistencies in my iPhoto library. After I click Repair, it takes 5 minutes to finish ...
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Safari can't connect to https
Safari suddenly can't connect to any HTTPS site because it "can't establish a secure connection".
This is on an administrator account, not a managed account.
A different administrator account is ...
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How to tell Google Chrome to use my Keychain
Background:
Story: A colleague of mine told me about 1Password and it seems good to me. I am always trying to use tools which Mac OS X itself gives me, so I've given the Keychain a try. It seems ...
