Keychain woes

Tiff Sunbacon

I have never ever been entirely convinced by keychain insofar as it
rarely seems to work but how I'm asked for passwords e.g. on launching
safari. No passwords work and I am using the right one but if I hit
cancel (and I have to do it three times in succession) it goes away
anyway. I've repaired permissions but the issue persists. Any ideas?

Thanks

Chris Ridd

On 2007-12-07 06:59:56 +0000, Tiff Sunbacon
<jeremy.fieldsend@googlemail.com> said:

> I have never ever been entirely convinced by keychain insofar as it
> rarely seems to work but how I'm asked for passwords e.g. on launching
> safari. No passwords work and I am using the right one but if I hit
> cancel (and I have to do it three times in succession) it goes away
> anyway. I've repaired permissions but the issue persists. Any ideas?

Use Keychain Access.app's "Keychain First Aid" option to find and fix
and problems in your keychain files.

Cheers,

Chris

Clive Sinclair

Tiff Sunbacon wrote:
> I have never ever been entirely convinced by keychain insofar as it
> rarely seems to work but how I'm asked for passwords e.g. on launching
> safari. No passwords work and I am using the right one but if I hit
> cancel (and I have to do it three times in succession) it goes away
> anyway. I've repaired permissions but the issue persists. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
I have had my MBP for several months and NEVER had a problem until I
installed Safari 3 (was a beta then).

Since then, Safari will remeber my logins, passwords, but not
automatically - UNLIKE Firefox which works great.

I've tried sever times with Keychain first aid and several suggestions
from forums, etc. Eve took it into my Local Apple store. The 'genius'
tried keychain first aid, then some 'other' genius software - neither
worked. They suggested a complete re-install of OS X, but I said it is
ONLY Safari with a problem.

Gave up, use Firefox all the time now - no problem remembering passwords
and auto logging in.

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Clive

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