I reset the Admin password using the install disk.
That worked fine but I would like to reset the User password as well to get keychain working.
All I find on the net about resetting the user password is going into single user terminal mode.
Is there not an easier way?
In the Admin Account go to System Prefs>Accounts. Select the user account you want and go from there. From within the user account you can also do this in System Prefs.
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your instructions should work the way the windowws come up and they do for one user account.
But the other is set up for automatic log in and for that one the password reset doesn't work.
Or better - the new password I entered is not recognized...maybe I never even had a password on that account and because of the auto log in it won't change that.
Bottom line was really that I wanted to reset my keychain password of the account with automatic log in and to do that one apparently needs the user account password.
Everything was working fine until I tried to launch OnyX - it didn't recognize my password, so I reset it using the install disk and now keychain ask me for a keychain password everywhere I turn whereas before the user names and passwords were just filled in automatically.
I think that all ties together somehow.
I assume if I do manage to reset the keychain password all the passwords stored there are going to be history.
Maybe I better go back to pen and paper for the trivial passwords unless I can recover the keychain one without loosing the existing password list there.
Strictly personal opinion. So many people have had so many issues with Keychain over the years that I avoid it like the plague. A second reason is if someone gains physical access to the computer they also have access to everything that would normally be password protected.
Any ways good luck
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So....is the information to automatically fill in user ID and password only kept in keychain?
Somehow, efore I did this password reset with the install disk, only the user ID and passwords of non-critical sites would be automatically filled in - like this forum for example.
For all my banking sites, pay pal, anything financial, I still had to enter user name and password manually.
That setup was fine for me.
But now ketchain is asking me for the keychain password continuously.
Every time I want to submit a post on ehMac for instance, keychain says Safari want a password. I need to click cancel at least twice before the post gets sent.
When I reset my admin password and my uer password, I also deleted the existing password hints and typed in new ones to reflect what the new passwords were not realizing that I need the old password to update the keychain password.
Not wanting to delete the existing keychain and starting afresh since I probably don't remember half the passwords for all the sites, I kept trying the password combinations I used and eventually hit on the right one.
Good thing one doesn't get locked out after a number of tries.
Don't forget that both the user login and keychain password have to be exactly the same, in case you didn't already know, and they are case sensitive, so that keychain doesn't keep nagging the user for a password.
I didn't really know that keychain was set up automatically when one initially creates a user account and password.
I don't think that is mentioned anywhere during the initial set up or Migration.
I was happy that the Mac would populate user ID and password for me when I logged into a website, I sometimes wondered where that information was stored and also wondered why it only worked for some sites.
On some sites the user ID and password would not be automatically populated and on some only the user ID bit not the password would be automatically populated.
Actually, I believe the website username and any password if kept, are actually saved in the appropriate cookie file.
And for those in case you ever forget, you can create a keychain to store the info in case you forget it/them.
I discover this after I had cleared my Safari cookies some time ago or I tried some stupid utility that cleaned them all up for me. Including my auto ehmac login, bank etc.!!
Actually, I believe the website username and any password if kept, are actually saved in the appropriate cookie file.(
It must depend on the website.
I had one yesterday where I have some web space to upload hobby related items, pictures, pdfs etc.
It was set up to populate User ID and password automatically but when I tried to upload the screen shot of the Mac mouse panel (for a different thread on ehMac, both of those two fields stayed blank and I had to enter the info manually which I fortunately remembered.
But I just checked that same site a short while ago after I "fixed" my keychain password and now both the user ID and password get filled in automatically again.
So that information in this case definitely came from keychain.
I think sites where you click a little box to "remember" your user name is where the info is kept in a cookie.
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